AFAIK, if you’re targeting mainland China and don’t need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk
I have a feeling I’ll have to learn traditional and simplified at the same time and that feels a bit daunting. 😅
AFAIK, if you’re targeting mainland China and don’t need to read anything historic, simplified should be enough. Anywhere else, you would need to learn them. I quite like this YouTuber for various linguistic stuff on Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EFhnMaVRk