Yeah, but this semantic problem has deeper ramifications. Since 98% of people who want an explanation of music get instead stuck down a rabbit-hole of culturall

Yeah, but this semantic problem has deeper ramifications. Since 98% of people who want an explanation of music get instead stuck down a rabbit-hole of culturally-biased music-pattern jargon/notation stuff, they don't know what they are missing. The market doesn't recognize its failure. And teachers don't learn that there even exists better insights to offer. The core point: I can't just tell someone about this semantic problem and then they are just on the right track and all is fine. Instead, even when you recognize the semantic problem, there's not a robust beginner-oriented base of literature for music cognition. The semantic problem is an actual obstacle to the prosperity of the better approach that I'm suggesting deserves to be recognized as "music theory".