Yeah this argument doesn't hold water for me either. Learning new notation versus learning a special-cased exception to the normal semantics of an existing piec

Yeah this argument doesn't hold water for me either. Learning new notation versus learning a special-cased exception to the normal semantics of an existing piece of notation feel like really comparable levels of cognitive overhead to me. I don't think this is necessarily a bad choice overall but I find this particular line of reasoning a bit specious.