Looking at extreme examples of historical spelling (e.g. Tibetan) English isn't particularly bad, even in the context of Great Britain, e.g Manx [0] is way more off.
[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_language#Spelling_to_so...
[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_language#Spelling_to_so...
(Manx is terrible, but for different reasons: its orthography was designed by English-speakers!)