Well, fixing the macro situation looks like an entirely different problem than arriving at a new math notation.
Thanks to ubiquitous MathJax and so on much of the TeX-like out there is already some subset that hasn't got the standard programming features of TeX. There's already some core behavioural standard that is arguably better (at what it does) than HTML/CSS as an universal document language.
And: we're starting to talk about massively transpiling to JavaScript rather than adopting a better language for remote applications. JavaScript isn't even that ensconced -- it's much easier to get programmers to change.
Maybe the entire LaTeX document model, based on the idea that the ordinary user doesn't get to do layout, needs to be scrapped. Maybe people want MS Word where you paste your figures where it well damn pleases you.
But even Word has taken to letting you type equations in TeX-like.
Thanks to ubiquitous MathJax and so on much of the TeX-like out there is already some subset that hasn't got the standard programming features of TeX. There's already some core behavioural standard that is arguably better (at what it does) than HTML/CSS as an universal document language.
And: we're starting to talk about massively transpiling to JavaScript rather than adopting a better language for remote applications. JavaScript isn't even that ensconced -- it's much easier to get programmers to change.
Maybe the entire LaTeX document model, based on the idea that the ordinary user doesn't get to do layout, needs to be scrapped. Maybe people want MS Word where you paste your figures where it well damn pleases you.
But even Word has taken to letting you type equations in TeX-like.