Why does the Simplified Chinese character 强 have more strokes than its Traditional Chinese counterpart 強?

Question

Simplified  强  （12） strokes
Traditional 強  （11） strokes

Are there any other similar cases in which a more complex form was adopted than the Traditional counterpart?

Answer 1

"强" has quite many variants such as:

犟、強、彊 ...

see: http://www.zdic.net/z/19/js/5F3A.htm

For example, similar phenomenon occurs to:

為(Hongkong) 爲(Taiwan) 

The fact is, for almost every character, it's likely to have a bunch of variants.

And about the "Simplified Chinese", it did "Simplify" quantities of characters because none of their variants is simple ( like 為->为 ).

However, more than half of the characters were not manually simplified in the last century, since there are very simple format in their variants already. Rather than creating new formats, those simple variants were chosen as standard "Simplified Chinese".

For the specific one "强", after excluding 犟、彊.., it probably was assumed that double '口' is clearer and simpler than "強", which harder to remember than "强"

Answer 2

My assumption has been that the variant 强 was selected as standard because the right hand side of 強 is not its own character, whereas 强 was perceived as easier to remember because it is 弓＋虽. However, etymologically, 強 = 弘 ＋ 虫, so the character reform committee kind of screwed the pooch in that sense.