In a sense, the inheritance of culture and the progress of civilization are equally important.
Traditional Chinese characters can indeed be seen as a concrete manifestation of cultural inheritance. From this aspect, Hong Kong and Taiwan have a relatively strong sense of tradition.
Simplified Chinese characters can be seen as a need to adapt to the development of modern civilization. Although we cannot say now that the invention of simplified characters is a progress of civilization, historically speaking, the changes in Chinese characters are not I've experienced this once or twice.
From oracle bone inscriptions, pictographs, seal scripts to Chinese characters, the overall trend is to become more abstract and concise.
Simplified Chinese characters are indeed more concise than traditional Chinese characters, but they are not more abstract than traditional Chinese characters.
Because traditional Chinese characters are based on pictograms and are words [symbols] that are related to reality. However, the connection between simplified characters and reality is insufficient, which means that its abstractness is not fully reflected.
The question of whether it should be done or not is no longer meaningful, at least in mainland China it has been a step forward.
But we should indeed consider the views put forward by the Japanese on how to find a balance between the inheritance of culture and the progress of civilization.
I don’t think it’s a big deal for people to learn simplified Chinese characters. However, it would be irresponsible to the Chinese people not to teach traditional Chinese characters in the classroom.
You don’t have to write traditional Chinese characters, but you must learn them. It would be best if China could do this in the future.