Han Xiu, a writer who lives in the US, was born and raised in mainland China, but she has nothing good to say about simplified characters: "When they don't lop off the head they lop off the tail; or else they are missing an arm or a hand or a foot. Homophones whose distinct meanings are clear in traditional characters are lumped together as a single character.
旅美作家韓秀在中國大陸出生長大，但她對簡體字實在不敢恭維，她形容簡體字不是「去頭斷尾」，就是「少胳臂、缺手腳」，而且一大堆同音異義字胡亂套用，簡直是錯別字連篇，看了真難過。