"Cursive is slow and painful and soooo inefficient."
You get good at what you practice, y'know? If you only read and write print, and start moaning about the Inherent Problems with Cursive whenever someone so much as connects two letters, guess what? YOU AIN'T EVER GOING TO GET GOOD AT CURSIVE.
Maybe if you took the energy it takes to Moan About Cursive and put it into LEARNING cursive, you'd have no need to moan about cursive, yeah?