There's just no pleasing some people.
Who, F? It would seem to me valuable that words differ so as to allow one to express fine distinctions of meaning (less vs. fewer, recur vs. reocur) and that a single-word-doing-double-duty (more) conveys less.

F, what side did you take in the "he-she-it" controversy, on October 5-9 at
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=42471&page=&view=&sb=&vc=1? If I recall, you and I were each on the side of preserving terminological distinctions.