Spelling in a digital age

Many people argue that spelling no longer matters, or beg for a return to "individualized spelling"

When spelling recorded sounds, perhaps individual spelling, or lack of convention, made sense. But now we read visually. Few of us sound out the words we read. And this requires proper spelling. Else we must translate letters to sounds to word (which we then see in our own spelling) to meaning. The effort slows down reading and hurts comprehension. You loose the flow