[Exolon]

Imagine if someone wanted to play music in an orchestra, but couldn't read music because it was "too confusing", but they'd never even tried to learn. They would be laughed out the door.

I'm not sure why so many laymen devs you mention (who, incidentally, tend to have an affinity for learning music and other "esoteric" skills) seem to apply that same logic. Like, why not learn and try the basics before throwing your hands up and saying it's too hard. It isn't... although it is very, very different.

[ithkuil]

The comparison is not fair though. Modern music notation, despite all its faults, is the Fe facto standard. Many attempts have been made to improve it. Some of those attempts may have been objectively better but the cost to change the standard is too high.

You wouldn't be surprised if somebody criticized an alternative music notation as being too confusing or requiring too much effort to learn for little benefit if they already know the mainstream music notation

[userbinator]

There has long been an ideological war against knowledge and learning.