Richard Yates wrote:

Aside from deliberately trying to make things difficult for note entry and
sight-reading, why would anyone notate the following passage this way:

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Janacek1.jpg

instead of this way:

http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Janacek2.jpg ?

(The whole piece is only three pages and stays in the same harmonic
neighborhood throughout.)

[from Leos Janacek, 'Po zarostlem chodnicku']

Richard Yates




Two explanations. Firstly, they missed the point of clarity in musical notation.

However, there's a potential alternative, that there is a harmonic relation to other movements / pieces / etc. A knowledge of the piece might make me irrelevant...
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