1) Word order isn’t all that important. With importance being getting the point across, even if it leaves dangling modifiers, some things will just be understood. Things like how squirrels don’t go to English class, as such people will read the sentence correctly regardless of its inherent meaning.
2) Of course! Style helps a person write their own way, making what they write a little more unique to them in a field of people who are writing and have to personify a voice on their papers.
3) Yes, think we that be’s it more problems than it past before has been. Texting part of the problem is this, probably.
4) Not too much, it seems that those who know the language so well (usually native speakers) seem to lose interest in the rules for word order while ESL populations are so conscious about the word order that as long as they know the rules they attempt to follow it as close as possible.
5) Poets.
6) Poetry.
7) Slightly.