I wonder if a large part of your hatred of cursive came from having to do it with a ballpoint or pencil. My hypothesis is that the ballpoint killed cursive. With fountain pens (and the earlier dip pens and quills), it flows so easily that we don't push down, just guide the pen. Cursive is much easier than print when using one. You just push the pen around basically. But then the ballpoint came. Especially those early ballpoints were so crappy you had to push down with some degree of force to make them write. Suddenly, cursive became hard. Pushing down continuously as you wrote made your hand tired, sore, and made the letters look bad. So we all collectively switched to print, which was suddenly much easier to do.