Even my mother who is 68 has severely deteriorated handwriting. Nobody writes by hand in a Western country since the smartphone.

It's interesting that for decades, technologists were stubbornly predicting that the paperless office was just around the corner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office

These predictions were famously overoptimistic. Paradoxically, paper consumption went up for a long time instead, because printers became cheaper or better, and wysiwyg word processors made it far easier than type writers to produce complex documents, with pictures and diagrams and tables.

But approximately since the smartphone era, printer usage indeed seems in sharp decline. The paperless office, at last, became reality. Just a few decades later than expected.

If I could get a digital music stand that worked well and wasn't expensive I'd get rid of a lot of my print. (I need one for the piano, one for the keyboard, one for each kid into music, so cost is very important!)

I feel like even if I try to write neatly, it’s like my hand has forgotten how