Remember that feeling when you were 13 and heard that awesome song for the first time? You might even remember where you were at that time. I still have some of that wonder and thrill.
Exactly.
It's clear that some folk like certain ways and they flog 'em to death without really paying attention to the where, why & how of others who don't care for those ways.
Music is fun, fulfilling, creative and more. Using the tools you know/can afford and learning new ones you can/care to play & write is the point.
We could be arguing about a preferred interface and, I suspect, the thread would've followed similar lines to this one.
The numeral & numbers systems are great. Professionals use them for a reason, but they do push the brain along a well worn concrete path.
Here's the chord chart for a song I wrote a year ago... a system that uses something like 1 - 4 - 5 isn't going to do a fab job of explaining it...