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Welsh pronunciation is fairly simple. There's a high level of correspondence between Welsh pronunciation of the Latin Alphabet, and the way those same letters are pronounced in English. The basic rules are ff= f sound, f= v sound, and dd= "th" as in "thine". 'll' is the only new sound. Y and w are both vowels in Welsh, but beyond that, the differences are few and far between.
Why are Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic characterized by complex spellings, and not Welsh? I think it's because Welsh is a Brythonic Celtic language, whose closest relative is Breton. Irish and Scots Gaelic are Goidelic Celtic languages, which generally have more complex orthography.

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