I think that depends a bit on whether and how much being able to hand write Japanese matters to you. MnN is a traditional classroom style textbook and so it implicitly assumes that hand writing is going to be part of the skillset you’re learning, but you don’t have to use it that way.
You might be interested in this older thread where people discuss the pros and cons of learning to handwrite the kanji:
I will say that with writing kanji, the basics of stroke order are not very difficult to learn – there are common patterns for how things are ordered, and complex kanji made up of lots of components are generally written just one component after another. So if you just want to be able to write kanji in your MnN exercises where the relevant kanji are right there in the exercise question to copy, that’s definitely doable. The hard part (i.e. lots of effort and more careful integration of writing into your SRS and mnemonics kanji learning routine) is if you care about memorizing the characters so you can think ねこ and write 猫…
Tofugu have an article about stroke order conventions: