In my experience, the Latin cursive that you may or may not have learned in an American classroom sucks. Common characters require too many strokes or raising the pen. Having to dot your i's and cross your t's breaks the flow. Also lots of people can't even read it.

It was only when I learned Russian Cyrillic that I grew to appreciate a good cursive writing system. It's super fast, most characters resemble their printed counterpart, and lots of words can be written without needing to lift the pen once. Yes, there's some ambiguity like ли and ш, but that's rarely a problem once you actually know the language. In comparison to the English cursive I learned in school, it actually feels like a system intended to be read and written by regular people for everyday use.