[kibwen]

English had beautiful writing, but it was destroyed by technology. First by the printing press, then by typewriters, then by low-resolution computer monitors. All of the human character and calligraphic qualities of the script have been mechanically stripped away in order to better accommodate what are now outdated legacy technologies, but everyone is so used to the status quo that we don't even realize what we've lost, and instead just accept that English script happens to be uglier than Japanese or Arabic or Devangari. In an alternate universe, we could be reading this in a script reminiscent of, say, the Uncial script used in the Book of Kells (which is what inspired Tolkien's beautiful Tengwar script).

[0dayz]

I would argue the opposite, Japanese is suffering more than English thanks to computers.

For instance a lot of the obvious brush stroke is gone such as: うえらおや

The upper line is supposed to either look like a droplet of water or like ふ upper part

Certain details are gone: にこ no longer has the half arrow you can see exists vertically on the horizontal line.

ふ lost a lot of its details.

Still I would argue it looks better now for the most part.

Source: https://gogonihon.com/en/blog/japanese-characters/

[mungoman2]

Not buying it. Japanese has also gone through the same tech tree.

[broodbucket]

Alternatively, we've made things a lot more legible for people from different backgrounds to understand. Deciphering modern fonts is a lot easier than deciphering cursive script, and hand-writing complicated scripts just raises the barrier of entry for people to communicate in written form

[simonask]

Good traditional handwriting is not less legible. You're just not as used to it, or you have only seen bad examples (like handwritten letters written by older people with shaky hands, or poor spelling, or misaligned lines). If you spend a little time with it, it's just as easy to read as the block characters we use in digital media and print.

[superjan]

In such an alternative tech free universe, I guess most of us would be illiterate farmers.