I would note that to the extent that schools enforce a stroke order, these stroke orders are somewhat arbitrary, and concerns more with legibility, pedagogy, an

I would note that to the extent that schools enforce a stroke order, these stroke orders are somewhat arbitrary, and concerns more with legibility, pedagogy, and, for some, enforcing it for the sake of enforcing it rather than an actual tradition. In the first place, even for identical characters, the way different Han-character writing countries have standardized their stroke order (to the extent that they have) may differ. Even with this, the stroke order may differ from the mainstream stroke order of the carefully-written Kaishu calligraphic style. And with more cursive calligraphic styles, the writers have more freedom to change the stroke order, choose alternative strokes, choose even alternative forms and traditions of the gylph (think straight r vs. r rotunda) for speed and expression; even, say, mainstream Xingshu (Running-script) regularly chooses a different stroke order and variant strokes from Kaishu. One sad result of this is that many writers of Han characters who do not then pursue calligraphy then believe that there is one correct way to write characters, and come to perpetuate and foist a baseless fiction upon others, and in some respects, judge others by it.