Most writing systems are optimized for the way they end up being used in practice by the society of their time. Which has nothing to do with "writing sacred tex

Most writing systems are optimized for the way they end up being used in practice by the society of their time. Which has nothing to do with "writing sacred texts" per se, it's more a function of traditional means of writing things down and reading them. E.g. if you do lots of scrolls, top-down writing actually makes a lot of sense.