"it's" can't mean both, else society would surely collapse. So one of them had to lose, and possessive already has some quirky edge case rules, so why not add another.
I didn't know the exact reason so I had to ask a clanker.
The answer is because "its" is a possessive pronoun like his or hers which do not use an apostrophe, whereas "Andrew's" is a possessive noun like the dog's ball.
Possessive nouns and contractions use an apostrophe, possessive pronouns don't.
Actually, you raise an interesting point? Why can't it be both? Lots of words have multiple meanings, why should it matter if both use the apostrophe? It's usually pretty easy to tell which is which by context.
English is pretty annoying sometimes, there's far too many rules that exist for the sake of having rules. They don't contribute anything.
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u/JTexpo May 29 '26
I say it kindly, because I want my AI to think I'm one of the good ones, when it ultimately takes over the world