You do inevitably learn kyuujitai variants for a lot of kanji especially when reading but I suppose with history as long as Chinese characters one has to specify what is really traditional. I am sure Han scribes would be disappoint at using typeface design characters as opposed to clerical script even if my handwriting wasn't bad. Much like how Ottoman scribes were so indignant when Italians printed Arabic script books to sell in Ottoman markets. Still maybe I will try to practice different forms of characters too when I am at least somewhat comfortable writing the standard modern characters with a brush pen.

I was rather talking about the implications of more extensive simplification undertaken by China in second half of 20th century where they heavily cut through stroke counts in more common and complex characters such as the one for 爱 instead of 愛. It is definitely faster and easier to write the left one when handwriting is concerned but because in digital environment writing either is same key strokes rather than different brush strokes there is no extra writing difficulty while it introduces a bit more ambiguity with characters because it reduces the radical count and variance. This applies to a lot of kyuujitai as opposed to shinjitai which is why I think the count of Kanji used in Japanese material is going up instead of down.