Someone intending to study sinology should start with them, for it is easier to move from complex to simplified characters than vice versa. Furthermore, if you don't study the traditional characters, how are you going to read ancient Chinese texts?
有志漢學的人，應當由此下手，「由繁入簡易，由簡入繁難」，更何況，不學正體字如何閱讀中國古書？