Spelling-Reform

[politicus]

For a radical spelling reform to make sense you would need to break the uniformity of the English language (even more than today) and change it into a group of closely related languages. I could see a reformed American with a spelling closer to modern American pronunciation work, but it would mean a profound break with British English. The same goes for Caribbean and Australian English etc. There are too many differences in pronunciation for one radical spelling reform to work in all Anglophone countries.

Minor pragmatic changes could of course be implemented, but you lack an "English Academy" to do it.

The last big and comprehensive spelling reform of Portuguese was hard to agree on, because Brazilians obviously wanted a major say in this and the Portuguese considered their version the correct one by definition. English would have this problem to an even larger degree and you lack the institutional framework to solve it.

[politicus]

I do oppose some central authority deciding what the "correct" spellings are and forcing everyone to comply.

That is the normal way to regulate written languages and the absence of such an institution is one of the main reasons English spelling is so conservative.