I think if you treat the Tower of Babel as a historical fact, then you begin to miss the message of the story. To me, it's irrelevant as to whether it existed or not. It's all about hubris.

Oh dear. The story of Babel is a symbol. It never existed.

There were temples ("ziggurats") with towers in Babylon. One of them, which was built under King Nebuchadnezzar II, was 91m high. Might have been a source of inspiration for the myth u mention... And we have to suffer learning languages when we dont have the chance to acquire them early enough and/or when we live in monolingual societies.

I think it's actually more interesting when there are lots of languages.

I really think that we are very lucky to have lots of languages around the world. I know it's a problem to work abroad or just going on holiday sometimes, but every language has an important amount of national culture inside of it. It's a kind of heritage that we had better appreciate and enjoy. Maybe it would be an easier world with just one language, but it would be a boring one. And one last reason, we wouldn't know each other due to websites like italki either.