Oooh, that’s really specific place
and at least those new ones used fixed suffixes

that part’s tottally understandable
small positive is at least read as its written(I’d say)

I’m guessing it also has vocative, which russian lost on the way

Croatian has 7 cases (padeža), it lost ablative and allative while russian additionally lost vocative.
Which seems like insignificant difference.

from personal experience,
we just deleted our accounts once school/uni was over
and started new chapter

Only in banana republic would customer be less valuable than ad revenue

Normal ones, yes, even 3rd world countries:

have counters only (minimalism).

No,
not giving them money is only answer that anyone should ever consider

ooh, look an Islander 😊