Please don't bring RDF out of its coffin. It has been tried and failed because it's overly complex and verbose. It's terrible, and technologies which still use it are terrible to interact with to this day.
I do agree that the layered system of different ontology languages as present in current semantic web standards is not beginner friendly, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be improved on.
I think you might be throwing the baby out with the bath water.