I don’t know why you feel the need to assure a native Russian speaker of that, though.

It’s fairly easy to read (provided good handwriting) and to tell what’s what from the surrounding letters.

As for being a separate topic - that would be the case for other cursives as well. More so in German, where they actually have more than one cursive system (although I’m not sure if Kurrent is actually still around for me to be making that claim).

Russian is as unique as other European languages. No less, no more.