>>82989420
I knew doctors and professors who had to spend time learning new hanzi because it very much is a lifelong learning process.

So much of a chinese student life is taken up with this bullshit that it comes at the cost of time spent on other subjects.

Mainland China has the most chinese people in it and it uses "simplified" script (mandarin) because all those extra strokes add nothing useful to the language while costing time when learning and writing.