English is an overrated language to learn

Okay, I know this is a blasphemy in this community but hear me out. I am Romanian native and I had to learn English in school since I was 8 years old and I continued until I was 18. I am from a Eastern European country and English is the standard language used in all international communication. The reason why I say that English is an overrated language is that in my experience, in the vast majority of the time, it is utterly useless. Specifically for Eastern Europeans. I work as a translator and I talk to native speakers from countries like Germany, France, Italy and Spain everyday and I was shocked at the fact that about 80% of them don't speak any English at all. I've been to these countries hundreds of times in my life, I study their languages as side projects and I used English in all of them and nobody could talk to me. <br><br>I live in a pretty big city, Cluj Napoca and it is a university town with a lot of foreign students but even with them, it is a 50/50 chance that they will speak English. So honestly, whats the point of English? Is it for travel? Nope. I speak Romanian, Hungarian, German, Italian and French and still things go wrong when traveling. Is it for work? Maybe. I had two remote jobs where I had to speak English, but I could do the work in any language and that's my entire experience with speaking to native English speakers. Is it for school? Depends on your profession. So why do I have to study compulsory English for 10 years when I could study other professions? I feel like my generation was fucked up by having to study an useless language. And no, I'm not an anti English nationalist, I love the language, the music, the media, but I think like any other language, it has to be studied by those who are actually passionate about it, not forced to do so. Or at the very least, they should not force people to study it for 10 years and make other language classes unreachable and more expensive. And this is the same situation in most European countries I visited, I was shocked to find out that the Swedes, Danes, Dutch and Portuguese are all speaking their native language everyday and have no need to use English. Most of the teachers that taught me English could not have a fluent conversation with another English speaker and honestly, we were all just memorizing boring ass phrases and industrial quantities. So, what's the point of it all?