Not as badly as English is broken. I mean, it's generally agreed that English as a language has accrued so much historical baggage that it's shed any elegance

Not as badly as English is broken. I mean, it's generally agreed that English as a language has accrued so much historical baggage that it's shed any elegance or coherence it may or may not have once had. It would honestly be surprising to me if the same thing didn't happen to musical language.