My Feelings on Articles in Language

Let me just say that I despise their criminal worthlessness. Of all linguistic evolution, articles are just about the worst mutation. Latin did not have articles (about the only good thing about it), Chinese does not have articles, why do we have them? In the Romance languages, article evolved from demonstratives (definate articles), and from unus, una, and unum (indefinate articles). Here is where I am especially annoyed. If articles evolved from demonstratives and the number one, if it became necessary to use them, certainly demonstratives and the number one would suffice. I loathe articles for their uselessness... almost as much as French vowel sounds, and English spelling and diphthongs.