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Sorry for the big off-topic. I just can't help when it comes to etymology.
What changed around the 4th~5th centuries were sounds, not letters - the Latin words using the sound [j] (as in yes) were being pronounced with [d͡ʒ] (as in jazz). Even everyday words like iocus (game) or iam (already).
But people kept spelling them the same - you'd use "I" for [i ɪ j ʒ dʒ] (as in beet, bit, genre, jazz), and let context tell them apart. For any language using the Latin alphabet, not just Latin herself, as shown by Shakespeare:
At most you'd flourish some "I" with a downwards curve, for easier reading; such as when you got 2+ "I" in a row. This mostly affects numbers (like XIII being spelled "xiij"), but also a few words like Old Spanish "fiio"="fijo" ("son"; modern Spanish "hijo").
It's more like both sides changed it. Without going too much into detail:
Well done on being both pedantic and informative. Yes you're absolutely correct on both points, I didn't feel the need to get that far into the weeds trying to explain that my own personal beliefs are tied into all of that historical pedantry. I just wanted to illustrate that such assholery is entirely possible by following the earlier ideas.
Sorry for my burst of pedantry. I couldn't help it, I love to dig through the origin of the words.
...for a reason that is actually related to your Baháʼí faith: it shows that humans - those in the past, us in the present, and probably the ones in the future - are still the same. You see the same processes working on those words in the past as they do now.
[I agree with your main point. And I'm aware that what I said is unrelated to it, it's only marginally related to the example.]