Actually that's incorrect, simplified Chinese was created to increase literacy during the cultural revolution. Which is no longer an issue in China.
As for why I hate simplified Chinese, yes it is political.
Simplified Chinese is an insult to the very foundation of the Chinese culture, it's nothing but soulless communist by-product.
There's no art or culture behind it, it was literally a ''censored'' version of Chinese, and the language itself is not even 70 years old.
Imagine 90% of the USA/UK are now communists and they all spell apple ''apo'' and the rest of the world think that's correct. ''Hir, hav an apo. It's gud fo u''
your looking down of simplified chinese from a cultural and political viewpoint is no more than a Shakespearean scholar well versed in victorian 'queen's english' looking down at the common folk's tongue and i don't know, American & Australian English.
I can't comment much about the political side but from a cultural viewpoint, language should always evolved to suit the times. If you are coming from a 'cultural purity' POV via traditional chinese, then you must probably fuming at all the butchering the Hong Kong people did to traditional chinese despite them using it, what with all the '今夜吾D?', '楂Fit人' etc typed of HK exclusive terms.
I don't know about you but the idea of 'cultural purity' is pretty dumb. A 'culture' is basically just 'a way of life & consensus experienced by a group of people'. As long as a group of people agrees on this 'way of life'. Then it is a culture, despite its age.
Scoffing off simplified chinese as 'culture-less', 'artless' is like saying electronic syth music is a 'lesser' music than classical music because it is 'younger'.