>What I’m arguing is that if you had no idea about stroke order, it would be very hard to remember how to write them at all. Yes, but it's crucially not necess

>What I’m arguing is that if you had no idea about stroke order, it would be very hard to remember how to write them at all. Yes, but it's crucially not necessary for reading them. Writing literacy in Japanese is not a common skill even among native speakers and isn't really a requirement for modern fluency given that you can use a computer to do the remembering for you.