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Why is alphabetical writing system very hard to create?

Consonants appeared earlier than vowels and in many written languages vowels are only appendices and Greek alphabet, Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet are very rare full-phoneme alphabets. And I've heard that syllabic writing appeared earlier than alphabetical writing and the latter was derived from the former. It means that ancient people don't have concepts of phonemes. But a syllable is a composition of phonemes, and any change of a phoneme in a syllable makes the syllable mean completely different (like "monkey" and "donkey"(changing one consonant) and "money"(losing one consonant) or "simulate" and "stimulate" or "complememt" and "compliment"(changing one vowel)). To able to distinguish them requires having the concept of phoneme. So why it's said "Ancient people don't have the concept of phoneme"?
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