Nonsense

And here i was thinking it was a way to write quickly and neatly

I was born in the 90s and we didnt have computers in school for us to use til I was around 12 or 13? And that was dedicated computer science class, and I went to a school known for math and science.

You needed to write your notes. By thr time I hit 14/15 we had to type our assignments but we were still using notebooks in class.

It was only by the time I hit college that people were using laptops in class.

So up until then, most people were still writing. I still write letters to people I care about - my girlfriend, friends who live far away, etc.

Also consider the vast amount of studies that show that handwriting helps people memorize or learn at a far higher rate than typing does.

Funny enough my younger brother is a good amount younger than me. He grew up with typing, his school gave him a Chromebook to start, laptops in every class, etc. It's just a difference in what you were taught and why, based on when you grew up. I don't think anyone expected us to go from n64 to ps4 in less than 20 years. The boom of technology has killed handwriting. But considering that for the longest time tech didn't advance at the rate that it has been doing since like 2008 or so, it makes sense that people were taught to write. Writing has been around for thousands of years. It's probably still a skill you want to be able to do, and do legibly