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Its possible that since my exposure to traditional characters has mostly been in contexts where they must be aesthetically pleasing that they become associated with that in general. You do have some good examples of unnecessary clutter though funny you bring up 廣, since I always felt the removal of the phonetic element made it lose its charm when simplifying, similarly, the simplification of the metal (釒) radical to 钅 sure saved me a lot of effort in school but I did like symmetry of "gold".
i didn't start learning chinese seriously until moving to china as an adult and was exposed to simplified characters long before traditional. i worked in a 广场 and though "广 makes sense, it looks wide and spacious". later in HK/TW i often misread it as 黄 until i got used to it