The current version of SimpleSearch (for MODX 3) has no plugin. That’s probably a relict from an older version. Deactivate the plugin (or delete it) and check if that fixes the issue.
The SimpleSearch plugin runs on the event “OnDocFormSave”. So the error occurs after the resources has already been successfully saved.
The “please wait - saving” message just never goes away, because the request doesn’t return the expected JSON result ({"success":true, ...}
) because of the fatal error.