As an Indonesian of Chinese background, I see both writing systems as difficult because I didn’t have the rights to study and use Mandarin until quite recently. This means that I have to start from 0 when it comes to learning Mandarin. I do think that simplified Chinese is easier to write than traditional but it can be quite hard to remember some of the similar characters. I’ve always had problems differentiating between 没 and 设, 天 and 无, etc. At the same time, I feel like crying if I were to write words like 边, 龟, 台湾,and many other words in traditional. As I progress, I start to dislike words such as 气,车,门,and some other simplified words because they don’t look good in my opinion. I do appreciate the look of traditional characters and also the efforts done by linguists to simplify them. Hopefully I can become fluent in Mandarin in the near future. 谢谢白白老师!