You’re actually the second person to point that out, and I totally agree. There were two reasons I went with regular notes instead for this piece. One, the person who introduced this analogy to me used regular notes in their example. And two, it seemed as though this version might be just incrementally more approachable to someone unfamiliar with music. But you’re right that rests really are a much more useful way of thinking about it, even if you only have a very basic music vocabulary. Thanks for reading and for the kind words, Laurel!