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Wonder no more; there's been a few attempts. Here's some from a quick HN search: Hummingbird (https://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/), Clairnote (https://clairnote.org/), and a thread with experimental music notation resources (https://llllllll.co/t/experimental-music-notation-resources/...)

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I love all these attempts because I read the introductions nodding my head in agreement—yes traditional notation is annoying, yes we can use software to make better notations, yes it should be intuitive—and then I get to their actual proposal and it's just as inscrutible as traditional notation, and, often, uglier.

It turns out that notating the production of sound is inherently a very information-theoretically hard problem.

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