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I used to think that too, until I realized that verb conjugation in English is not decided by whether the subject is singular or plural. "You" can be both singular or plural, yet we always say "you are" and never "you is". Same for the pronoun "they". It's always "they are".
Unless you is also willing to normalize "you is", I think "they are" is good enough.
I is willing to allow it