I read plenty of historical documents not in cursive. They’ve been transposed. And really given the way cursive and the language it writes changed over the years it really doesn’t help. You’re guaranteed to run into letters written a way you’ve never seen them (I remember the first time I encountered those big s’s that look like fancy f’s), and words you’ve never encountered. Reading original versions of historical documents is its own skill set that just barely begins with cursive.
The giant “s” that looked like an “f” was done on a printing press.
Yes, I have a copy of a 1720’s book....it took awhile to get used to the f’s...as well as the “lingo”...LOL