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My last name is extremely difficult to spell because it is much different from the way we pronounce it...my surname is German, and so we pronounce it closer to the German than the English, but the way we say it makes people think it's a Chinese name or something.
Plus, my first name, Elizabeth, is very difficult for some kids, and often times teens also to spell...people have spelled it Elizebeth. I'm not as bothered by mispelling of my first name as I am of my last name though, because there's no mispronunciation to go along with it.
I prefer standard spellings of names because a variant (or a name with a bunch of spellings) will give people a hard time. Take that from the view of someone who has been teased for a hard-to-pronounce, hard-to-spell German surname. Standard spellings are often (but not always, so I don't start a fight) in the best interests of a child.