Yup the more I learn music the more I'm impressed by sheet notation and realise (as someone passionate about programming language theory and also linguistics) that something that can unseat sheet notation will be a huge undertaking.
Granted it does have its edge cases. IIRC it's not great at representing complex rhythm.
But what sheet notation does great man does it do well at it. Like recently have been looking at quite a few different multi voice piano pieces and the fact that using convention you can differentiate between the lower and middles voices is pretty amazing.
Eg in Clair de lune the runs that are played by both hands will share the same beam to denote it's a single voice
Granted it does have its edge cases. IIRC it's not great at representing complex rhythm.
But what sheet notation does great man does it do well at it. Like recently have been looking at quite a few different multi voice piano pieces and the fact that using convention you can differentiate between the lower and middles voices is pretty amazing.
Eg in Clair de lune the runs that are played by both hands will share the same beam to denote it's a single voice