This is an article about the second round of character simplifications that didn't succeed, although some of the characters are still in use. The main difference between this round and the previous one was that these characters were largely new, instead of being variants that had already been in use for a long time.
I think people who learn simplified Chinese will have the same feeling when looking at these characters as people who learn traditional have when they see ordinary simplified characters. Do you think learning to write Chinese would have been easier if these had been implemented?