>> there is no interest in society for fixing a broken system 1) because it
>> isn’t broken enough to be unusable, so we limp along and 2) who would want
>> a system devised by a second grade kid.
There's no interest in a system devised by anybody. Bernard Shaw left the
bulk of his estate to a charitable trust for promoting a rational English
alphabet. The residuary legatees (the BM, RADA and the Dublin Royal Academy)
challenged the bequest on technical grounds. An out-of-court settlement was
reached which conceded the trust enough money to sponsor a design competition
for a new alphabet; Penguin published a transcription of Androcles and the
Lion using the winning design; and that was the end of that.
I might point out, by the way, that there's nothing wrong with the English
alphabet; it's English orthography that's the problem. And even that is of
some value to students of older dialects or of other Germanic languages.