Why the bass clef exists in music. Take the piano, why can’t the left hand on all pieces just be in the treble clef like the right?
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The lines on the bass clef are GBDFA. The lines on the treble clef are EGBDF. You could imagine drawing a treble clef right on top of a bass clef and adding in an extra line between them for C, making a single megaclef with 11 lines.
In fact, this used to be a thing, but 11 is quite a lot for humans to keep track of. So it was split into two smaller groups of 5, with the C slipping onto each as an extra temporary line when needed. 5 is a number we can easily figure out at a glance without having to think, so it makes it much more functional for us to read.
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