I love all these attempts because I read the introductions nodding my head in agreement—yes traditional notation is annoying, yes we can use software to make be

I love all these attempts because I read the introductions nodding my head in agreement—yes traditional notation is annoying, yes we can use software to make better notations, yes it should be intuitive—and then I get to their actual proposal and it's just as inscrutible as traditional notation, and, often, uglier.