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Great thread on prescriptivism and the path to enlightenment.
Also, did you know that English actually used to have a "whichm"? (Well, technically, it was "hwilcum", but you get the point.)
"Which" comes from the Old English "hwilc", which is a compound of the stems that give us "who" and "like"/"-ly".
And like other nouns and pronouns in Old English, it inflected for number and case (and also gender, because it could be masculine, neuter, or feminine.)
So you'd say "hwilc" for a singular nominative, "hwilcne" for a masculine accusative, "hwilcum" for a masculine or neuter dative, and on and on. There were eight different forms depending on gender, number, and case.
And then in Middle English, cases disappeared from all but a handful of words—the personal pronouns and "who". Those eight distinct forms reduced to one.
Is English poorer for the loss? I don't think so. It certainly doesn't appear to affect our ability to communicate.
You wouldn't even know that "which" used to have all these different forms unless you'd taken Old English. And if "who" had gone the same way and lost all of its inflected forms too, you wouldn't know that either, and your life would be just fine.
