It seems to me that for each existing in a language there is at least one exception. Not to mention words or verbs that simply do not follow rules. Why is that?
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You’re thinking it the wrong way. Languages standardized in the last centuries from the massification of the printing press and public efforts in education. But while most of the language can be standardize, certain parts cannot, because they’re the most commonly used bits of the language. Also, some irregularities have also regularities in them because it’s more complicated than “it’s regular” vs. “it’s irregular” (I’m thinking in the conjugation of certain Spanish verbs, for instance c**o**ntar -> c**ue**nto, s**o**ltar -> s**ue**lto, d**o**rmir -> d**ue**rmo; this is because Spanish vowel pronunciation tend to favor diphthongs).
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