[Procyon]

And after generations are taught the simplified spelling will they be able to read older books or will they be lost to the general culture or treated as mere quaint poems and prose like Chaucer’s works?

[Olog-hai]

All past poetry is treated as “quaint”, even Shakespeare, which is early modern English. Poetry in general is considered “quaint” unless of course it’s an element in stuff like “hip-hop”, which tends to use its own dumbed-down “phonetic” spellinz.

[varmintman]

And after generations are taught the simplified spelling will they be able to read older books or will they be lost to the general culture or treated as mere quaint poems and prose like Chaucer’s works?

Older works will be converted. Then they'll be easier to read...