Even someone for whom English is an acquired language can appreciate literature. Being an English learner doesn’t make a person incapable of reading English literature.
... or people with literacy issues, learning difficulties, or intellectual handicaps.
Sure, "simplifying" a literary classic in this way may be in poor taste (although there already exist human written versions in easy language for english language learners), but using this for things like forms, letters, manuals, lists of instructions et cetera will be invaluable to a lot of people for whom it simply isn't possible to simply learn more words.