From time to time the question of Japan’s wonderful writing system reappears in conversation, and always what comes to my mind are those sordid wretches who bemoan that music notation is ‘overly complex’ and wants reformation.
A proposal to abolish accidentals or clefs/staves in favor for a chromatic staff? Absolutely not, it is more difficult to sight read! Abolish notation entirely for piano roll/MIDI display? Again, difficult to sight read, and unsuitable for ensembles; you optimize for one advantage and have to amputate the rest. Many of these complaints come from resentful aspirants, which are then answered by swindlers, who underneath their ‘reforms’ are ultimately selling a story: it is not that you lack the talent or ability, but that you are being artificially gatekept by convention, and these conventions ought to be altered, even to the extent that it becomes functionally worse, because the aim was never to ‘improve’ it but to appease la Volonté du Peuple.
As a matter of fact, the more complex and convoluted a writing system, the better; an illiterate peasantry will be a barren soil for ambition, innovation, and conspiracy to fester (this is a joke).