Penmanship != Cursive, Cursive may be dead, but for good reason. We don’t need to draw out huge chunks of text quickly anymore. If you don’t need to hand write

Penmanship != Cursive, Cursive may be dead, but for good reason. We don’t need to draw out huge chunks of text quickly anymore. If you don’t need to hand write blisteringly fast, printed letters are imminently more legible/consistent. Cursive also requires a lot more practice that would just be a waste of time. I write beautiful cursive letters on occasion for my wife, but it’s terribly slow because I don’t have much practice. People with good printed penmanship are not rare. In school I recall admiring many classmate’s neat and creative note taking styles in the 2010s. That’s because note taking is where hand writing still offers benefits over typing. The freeform of pen&paper is still faster than typesetting atypical styles.