One more thing: having sound built into Chinese characters defeats one of its strongest reasons for being. Not only is Chinese monosyllabic and full of homonym

One more thing: having sound built into Chinese characters defeats one of its strongest reasons for being. Not only is Chinese monosyllabic and full of homonyms, historically there was no standard pronunciation so that you might not even understand the neighboring town. Having a character set solves both these problems. IMO, those kinds of phono-characters were always lazy creations.