I think another effort should be made to romanise chinese. Imagine entire books written in pinyin. I've seen a few of these, but they are very old, and rare. And not actually using pinyin per se, but are using the latin alphabet.

There still is a problem with Chinese text input on computer. Just observe anyone doing it. They can go quite fast, but probably not as fast a in English or another that uses the alphabet on the keyboard. Input is also very interactive. You type a few characters and choose your word/phrase from options presented on screen.

1) If you were blind, you would need screen reader software that reads the options to you. And you couldn't transcribe what is spoken, the reading-back would interfere with the original dictation.

2) if you were retyping something written down, you would need to move your gaze between paper and screen. Hundreds or thousands of times. This would be very tiring. A fast typist in English keep their gaze on the paper. Don't look at the keyboard and screen at all.

3) Does it not interrupt your flow of thought if you're constantly choosing options on screen. How does an author manage this? Or do constant practice means that you can "pinch"of a section of your mind, and that becomes the autopilot that chooses the options, while your main mind continue to think of whatever you were doing.

4) Chinese being an extremely compact language, there are many "words"/characters that are pronounced the same, but written differently. There is no easy way to clearly verbally specify which character you mean. In a language like English, you just spell it out. Just watch a Chinese speaking person telling another how to write their name, and you can see there is a problem. There being no actual way to spell out the character, how do you know which character you are speaking? This becomes a negotiation. You pick one character, put it in a phrase. Then from context, the other person guesses, "oh, you mean that character". Then repeat for each character in your name.

BTW: I used English only as an example. Not saying that it is better than Chinese. But the writing system has advantages in some instances. The same advantage goes with other languages like Malay, Russian, Tagalog, etc.