Most of them go for your method, I must admit that it is easier, especially when you do something in Locrian or something… thats A LOT of accidentals
on the other hand…
If you’re notating something in a mode of the melodic minor scale, what key do you go for then?
As for some of the old school guys that I’ve caught up with recently, Greg only ever writes in tab without rhythm, he gets his notation done by Eric Wirsing, and Mike Stern does some himself, that he does my way, writing E dorian lines in G major. Hemme B. Luttjeboer also did alot of Stern and Henderson back in the day, he uses the same method.
Its a mine field! 😀