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As somebody whose primary language is Dutch, the lack of an explicit plural "you" is one of the worst things.
If I'm talking to somebody, I can't nicely refer to a group they are part of, because "you" means they themself specifically, "y'all" makes me feel like engineer TF2, and "you people" sounds condescending.
Just use y'all, it's great
Y'all is good, all y'all is better.
You could say "you lot" like our British friends.
"All of you."
...all y'all
...stateside it's regional whether folks use 'you all', 'you guys', or something more-specific to address plural groups...