alt Hacker NewsIt's a good idea because spelling words how they're pronounced was one of the biggest achievements of the Western world and our broken orthography impairs literacy.
Only English has this insanity driven by people who simply don't like change, like the aesthetics of older spellings, or because they're a closet francophiles/latinophiles like Johnson, but try to justify it with nonsense about etymology because how weak the personal preference argument is.
You need to retain Latin and Greek spellings for interoperability with other languages.
The problem with English is that it messed up its vowels and started changing the pronunciations.
It's very helpful to newcomers to English that a word like psychology is written in a way that is similar to theirs. But, yiles, the butchered pronunciations, /saɪˈkɑːlədʒi/, is unrecognizeable.
Other languages don't have problems with old spellings. In Czech, psychologie is pronounced the way it is written, pretty much letter for letter: /psɪxologiɛ/