[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.