> For many young people, “handwriting,” once essentially synonymous with cursive, has come to mean the painstaking printing they turn to when necessity dictates.

It's not that big of a difference.

Actually, going by this other atlantic article, cursive is only 10% faster. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/yeah-...

If you want a non-painstaking writing system for more than a few words at a time, you get a keyboard or use some kind of shorthand.