> I'm wondering what the issues are here and why stroke order was useful in the 90s but not considered so now People expect more from technology. So while in

> I'm wondering what the issues are here and why stroke order was useful in the 90s but not considered so now People expect more from technology. So while in the 90's it was amazing that technology could get the correct character if you clearly wrote each character with the correct stroke order, today, people expect to be able to hurriedly scrawl (possibly in cursive) and have the system get the right character. Those are two very different problems. See for example the images of cursive characters in the linked article. They are very common variations, containing simplifications, but they don't follow anything like the correct stroke order for the character except maybe in broad terms such as writing from left-to-right, or top-to-bottom