Couldn't of said it better myself!
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English is probably not OP‘s first language.
Native English speakers are the very worst for using "of" instead of "have", "bought" instead of "brought" and similar lazy-isms. I have never heard a non-native do it ever, although of course they make other language mistakes.
It's a native speaker problem because we learn it by listening to people around us who pronounce "could/should/would have" like "of".
They just repeat what they hear.
If they read more (books, not youtube comments and forum posts) they'd notice it's wrong.
Non-native speakers learn from textbooks and not real life (in a lot of cases) so they're confused about the mistake. They make a whole ton of other mistakes that comes from learning from textbooks and not real life.
If both groups would read more novels or other real English many of these issues would go away.
couldn't've :-)