We reduce vowels (because we can)

You know what makes Russian language difficult? Nope. Not cyrillic letters. In fact, most of them are already familiar to you. You have to memorize some of them, but believe me, it's a matter of practice. We Russians never struggle with Latin characters, so you can read cyrillic ones as easy as we read Latin. They may be pronounced in a different way, like the Russian B which gives you the [V] sound, but anyway, Russian words are much more user friendly than the English ones. Normally if we see a word, we can pronounce it without a mistake. Well, the only mistake we natives can make is a stress mistake due to unpredictable stress on words. But it's not the point.