As someone who went through Chinese grade school where I had to copy each character many, many times, I have to say those pictograms are a PITA to write :) But

As someone who went through Chinese grade school where I had to copy each character many, many times, I have to say those pictograms are a PITA to write :) But I did get curious. I just tried to copy a few sentences from a UN document in both Simplified Chinese and English, and the time I spent are surprisingly similar. I imagine Traditional Chinese would be worse though.