I studied piano in college and during one lesson I was struggling to read some Chopin piece that had double sharps. I asked my professor why classical music not

I studied piano in college and during one lesson I was struggling to read some Chopin piece that had double sharps. I asked my professor why classical music notation hadn't been "improved" over the years, because some parts of it seemed so convoluted to me. I felt that the goal was to get to "the music", which was actually the sound of the piece, and the methods to reach that didn't matter. He told me that this was how Chopin had communicated his music, and this the only true medium that he (and many other composers) had to get their works and musical ideas to present day. I still feel like classical notation can be a undue burden in many cases, but it also feels like studying an older dialect of a language so that you can attempt to most accurately translate the meaning