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Both as a small child and as an adult, learning music I'm suuuuper distracted by the complexity and the badness of traditional music notation.

What makes it complex and bad?

In my experience the vast majority of popular musicians cannot read musical notation, and it doesn't really seem to impact much.

It seems like it's more important to read Fruity Loops or Ableton filter notation nowadays.

Sure, it takes work. But we expect children to be able to do it and they do.

Surely not all children? You mean children enrolled in music class, which I don't think qualifies as a small amount of training.