True (I hate it too). And like democracy, it's the worst idea (except every other system that has been tried). I've looked at many notations over the years, an

True (I hate it too). And like democracy, it's the worst idea (except every other system that has been tried). I've looked at many notations over the years, and each seems to get one thing exceptionally right at the expense of nearly everything else (and unusable for some cases), whereas standard sheet music is universally bad for all uses, but not bad enough to make it unusable for any common use -- at least as long as you stay within the 12-notes-per-octave world)