Cursive was removed from most public school curriculum for a couple of reasons, 1) It promotes some form artistic individualism, 2) Most of our important documents are written with it and, 3) It's a lot harder for computer's/AI to read in picture format than printed information.

Sad thing is the emoji thing run along the same lines it would seem. It's like they're dumbing us down taking written communication back to Egyptian hieroglyphs.