My opinion is this: who can I speak Esperanto with?
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Exactly.
The problem with Esperanto is that languages don't work like that: they're not created out of thin air. They exist because people speak them and they come into existance from other languages that get distorted beyond recognition by the people who misuse them.
No living language is known to have been conjured into existence, with perhaps the possible exception of a few rare language isolates like Basque that might have been invented from scratch a long time ago, since nobody knows where they come from exactly.