Today I gave my first attempt at actually learning a bit of toki pona. I already knew it was a language from a while ago watching some youtube videos, but today I decided to see how it looks like. I was pleasantly surprised to know the vocab was based off of multiple languages around the world, which personally already makes me more fond of it than esperanto, which heavily based itself off of European languages, most influenced by romance languages. It was never fit to be a universal language in the first place (my opinion).
Toki pona however, wasn't constructed to be one in the first place. It's mostly a trial to see how minimal of a language can we make, in a way that it's still functional (seems like nowadays it has about ~137 words in overall usage, naturally it has dialects), but that's where it would be a nice auxiliary language. It's good for conveying simple ideas, but I've heard their dictionary contains more than 10 thousand words, so I'd love to see how those words are written using compounds of the root toki pona words.