Why is “They” a common alternative pronoun to he/she, considering it works for a single individual in some contexts, but in others it sounds like multiple people. “They’re watching a movie” or “they went to a concert” for example.
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It’s cause you’re not used to it. There’s plenty of instances where correct grammatical sentence structure in English still leaves room for ambiguity, but we’ve learned to accept it, aside from the times when we make fun of English.
The use of “they” as a gender neutral term in this fashion has been in use for at least a couple of centuries, but different schools of thought are fixated on their own personal tradition of speaking.
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