Strong Opinions (Loosely Held) About Conlangs

I don't really care about fictional languages

Some people invent languages for fictional people to speak. I don't get this. I mean, you do whatever you want, but like... fictional people don't exist. Maybe this is just an extension of my lack of caring about fiction generally.

(The Lord of the Rings is not fiction, btw. It's mythology.)

I don't really care about IALs

English is already the de facto IAL. No Esperanto clone will ever get close. This situation sucks, because English has been parasitized by cancerous, planet-destroying ideologies, and every place it spreads to slowly dies. But IALs are not going to fix the situation.

I do care about artlangs

Conlangs can be beautiful, so they should be. They can be cool and interesting, so they should be. They're a lot of work to make, so why would you aim for anything less than this?

I do care about engelangs

Creating a conlang grammar is a fun engineering project. Figuring out how to make all of the different systems in a language work elegantly and expressively together is challenging and rewarding. I hope I haven't ruined the fun too much by inventing OGTRTA, which is already very nearly ideal in every way and will continue to improve over time.

Conlangs should be learnable

If even the creator of the language has no hope of ever being able to speak or write it fluently, what's even the point?