Well, which is less sonfusing--minor scales getting their own key signatures or minor keys having the exact same key signatures as major scales?


Maintaining the status quo is less confusing. It seems that most people will quickly identify a key by the number of sharps/flats in the key signature, and then identify if it's a minor key by the sound.
Having two 'unrelated' keys with the same key signature (okay, e.g. the two flats in the signature may be on different notes, but that is not always obvious, particularly as they will appear differently in different clefs) seems a pointless complication of the system.

For the major keys, number of sharps in order:
Go Down And Enter By Force,   Crash!
Number of flats, in order:
Fly B.E.A. Don't Go Cambrian. (okay my last school music lesson was before B.E.A. & B.O.A.C. merged into British Airways, and Wales still had its own airline, 'Cambrian')

Cheers
Nigel