shitty C pointer arithmetic

Why are pointers in C aligned to the size of their data? Why cant they just reference memory bytewise?

How can i manipulate a pointer so that it references a address not by its own size, without typecasting it?

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Changing it to only operate on bytes would only make everyone have to add +n*sizeof(...) to their code, which would be stupid.

Thats what arrays are for, it should be like i say with pointers.

A pointer is a just pointer for gods sake. it just points to some location in memory, independend of the size of the object at that address. This behaviour doesnt make much sense.