You can take notes without cursive. Even if it's technically faster, most people's cursive is an illegible scrawl, often even to themselves. I can scribble really fast, too, but so what?

This is somewhere between annoying and a minor problem for most things. It became downright dangerous when doctors would write out a prescription, and the pharmacist would misread the dose by an order of magnitude or more.

Also, I like using fountain pens, and I find I have to slow down anyway for the flow to be right. Modern one's don't tend to dribble ink the way an old quill pen might, so lifting it from the page is no problem.