> nobody has managed to propose a better one A new notation system will need to be a lot better to justify the change, because there is also a lot of value in

> nobody has managed to propose a better one A new notation system will need to be a lot better to justify the change, because there is also a lot of value in compatibility with everything that already exists. I'm not sure a sufficiently better system exists, because as you say, the traditional notation works. It has its quirks and rough corners, but music is complicated enough that any system would probably have similar imperfections.