Re:Or use Kanji (Score 1)

You've touched on the biggest problem with spelling reform, which is that it has to be re-done every hundred years or so to keep things spelled phonetically. Most words in English are spelled in a way that made phonetic sense at the time their spelling was standardized. In places where spelling reform is the norm, you have to not only re-publish, but entirely re-write anything from previous generations that you want the current generation to be able to read. Without standardized spelling, any written work of our great-grandparent's day that wasn't considered important enough to entirely re-write with the updated spellings of words would essentially be lost to the world, even if it's sitting on your bookshelf now.