This is kind of interesting when you think of what would happen if someone decided to "impose" the use of "you" instead of "thou". In English it happened organically. Take communist Poland, for example. The ruling party was all about changing how people talked, pushing words like "comrade" and all. But their attempt to make people use the plural form for a single person totally backfired (as did the use of "comrade"). It felt so out of place that when communism fell, the old way of speaking came roaring back and the distinction between "thou" and "you" is now stronger than ever before. Just goes to show, some things you just shouldn't be forced. Language change is definitely one of those things.

Makes me wonder in what interesting ways the current wave of English language manipulation (neo-pronouns, "blocklists" etc.) will backfire.