Actually technically QWERTY was designed to make better typists, you just have to keep in mind what made a typist “better” back then. One of the big problems they were facing with the early hammer style typewriters was strikers getting tangles because one striker wasn’t down far enough when a fast typist was hitting the next letter. The solution they came up with was putting the most common letters under the weakest fingers, thus slowing the typist down, thus delaying the next strike, thus keeping the strikers from tangling, thus actually improving their overall speed.
It’s lack of being phased out isn’t a matter of laziness, it’s a matter of having better things to do with our time than relearn typing. We have multiple generations that know QWERTY by touch, there’s really no way to phase it out, you either replace it or you keep it, if you replace it then all the old typists need to relearn from scratch, so we keep it.
It’s lack of being phased out isn’t a matter of laziness, it’s a matter of having better things to do with our time than relearn typing. We have multiple generations that know QWERTY by touch, there’s really no way to phase it out, you either replace it or you keep it, if you replace it then all the old typists need to relearn from scratch, so we keep it.
The way I learned about it, was that the original layout in QWERTY was done to sell, and then, slight changes or tweaks were made, but that overall, it was more for ease of demonstration and selling purposes.
Your right about the multiple generations learning by QWERTY, my view is not to get rid of it, but to simply teach children the DVORAK way instead (they can and still will learn QWERTY on their own, no one is banning anything or making any laws saying no, you can't use this). The younger generations learn it, hopefully keep it (some will, some won't), and in time, eventually, it'll be the more adopted standard. You'd be making the change or transition from the bottom (and dumping cursive while we are at it).