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One of the first things Communist China did after the glorious revolution was institute writing reform, "simplifying" the writing system in order to "increase literacy."
Decades later, Taiwan who never simplified their writing nevertheless maintains a higher literacy rate than the mainland, and the people in the mainland are no longer capable of easily reading anything that Chinese culture has produced in the millennia before the communists.
Dumbing down education in the name of "modernization" is deliberate.
I hate the CCP as much as anybody but the divide between Simplified and Traditional is (a) a little bit more complex and (b) not actually much of a divide. I can read both even though I only 'learned' simplified.
Nevertheless, I agree with the spirit of your post and lament the degeneration of a good education. Common core is far inferior to trivium-quadrivium, for example, and they certainly don't teach critical thinking in Mainland China.