About the existing ASL orthographies such as Stokoe and SignWriting, aside from the issue of copyrighted or patented or whatever systems, and aside from the issue of their not being (currently) known by a majority of ASL signers, I haven't seen the questions addressed (or even asked) (1) are the systems relatively easy to learn if you already know ASL — rather like a phonetic alphabet or syllabary — say with a discrete symbol for each chereme and an intuitive way of handling stress exaggeration or whatever you call the way a sign can be exaggerated in whole or in part (sort of like lengthening a syllable's duration in spoken Chinook Jargon, e.g. anqəti "-ed", aaanqəti "-ed quite a while ago", aaaaaaaaaaaanqəti "-ed when dinosaurs ruled the earth" - the ə is a schwa in case it doesn't come through the email mill) — or is it relatively difficult to learn if you already know ASL, say like Japanese kana majiri?
Haruo