It can be clear to a newcomer that a system has problems without needing to understand everything, or even very much. Sometimes the newcomer is wrong, but a quick scan of the comments here indicate that a number of musicians agree.
Funny, I skimmed the comments and actually came to the conclusion that I did not need to write another one stating that music notation, not unlike many other complicated tools, is perhaps at first sight arbitrary and odd, but after working with it for a while you find that all the little quirks, like having multiple ways to write the same note, are actually very helpful.
