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Why create this new language and start from zero when Esperanto already has speakers and resources?
Lojban.
Se vi lernus paroli Loĵbanon, via komunikado estus komplete malambigua kaj logika.
Esperanto has a lot of good features, but it is binary gendered and default male by design. That hasn't aged well.
Due in part to persecution on both sides during the Cold War, it has skipped a generation in terms of adoption. There are a lot of old speakers, a growing set of new speakers, but not a lot of middle aged speakers. But the dated politics and class interests of the large population of the surviving advanced aged speakers with leisure time to participate in the culture can make them as much a burden as they are a resource, in north America at least.
That's interesting and kind of disappointing to hear - I mostly know of Esperanto thanks to Harry Harrison who loved it enough to write it into his books and add ads about it to the last pages.