The Internet and Pinyin input methods has rendered these calls of reform largely irrelevant. Handwriting skills outside the education system are on the decline due to digitization, but the positive side is that any literate individual can utilize Chinese characters in online communication with trivial effort. For non-trivial ones there are always online dictionaries which can be accessed via online search in seconds.

An opinion on the Chinese language from 1984 is not applicable in 2018, pretending that it does is disingenuous.