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It's a great neutral pronoun, but it can sound like you are referring to multiple people depending on how you use it.
Yeah we need a dedicated genderless singular third-person pronoun.
The only thing that comes to mind is "it" but that tends to dehumanize people.
I wish we could just manually change english. Forget all gendered pronouns because they shouldn't even need to specify. Just animate/inanimate singular/plural.