Comment by anewhnaccount

My understanding is historically simplified writing systems are met with a lot of resistance when there is a small educated class interested in holding on to their status since they are intended to help bring literacy to the masses. A sort of parallel can be drawn with the Luther Bible. This was a threat to an intellectual class (the clergy) who's status was in part due to their knowledge of Latin. A similar thing also happened with Hangul in Korea. Taiwan still uses traditional characters. Beyond these facts, I'm not sure of the particular connotations the grandparent is referring to.