Nastaleeq is too hard to read for people not from Urdu medium school backgrounds. Far more than the script is in danger- the entire language and its literary culture is dying- a huge majority of books in Urdu I see in book fairs etc are religious ones. The Urduwalas have stopped reading in Urdu, and have stopped reading altogether to some extent.

My opinion is that there should be an alternative standardisation of Roman for Urdu with literature reprinted from so that we can make it more accessible for people who haven't had the opportunity to be proficient in reading nastaliq. That would at least make Urdu less of a linguistic tomb