I dunno how I ended up there, but I found myself on the wikipedia entry for the name of Japan (Nihon?) which has a lot of Chinese and Japanese script.
It looks very cramped in whatever my default font size is, and a lot of the detail seems difficult to pick out. Particularly in the (I assume) traditional Chinese. Example: 大清帝國
Which got me wondering about font size. Do users of these scripts have different defaults? Or is it just because I’m not used to reading it?
I agree that English probably isn’t going anywhere, but a change to the alphabet letterforms wouldn’t be throwing out all of English. I mean, the alphabet is a very small portion of English, and the precise forms are only part of that. That’s a limited amount of learning, and all you’d need on the device side is a “new style” font.
Stuff like spelling and grammar shifts are much larger in terms of learning, and those regularly happen.