Although I largely agree with your point that gettin hung up on notation is missing the forest for the trees, you should not entirely dismiss the art of good no

Although I largely agree with your point that gettin hung up on notation is missing the forest for the trees, you should not entirely dismiss the art of good notation. For example, Leibniz differentials make the chain rule seem "obvious" due to its analogy with standard fractions. But, I agree that people who get hung up on the same symbol having different unrelated meanings or different symbols having the same meaning will have a hard time learning the physics beneath the symbols.