I vote fix it. Just as you would fix (for instance) ... old style bass clef horn transposition, etc.
Be careful here. If you change the bass clef horn notation for a style where old-style notation is the norm, you are far more likely to break it than to fix it.
Quite often the bass clef notation is ambigious. Departing from stylistic expectations just begs trouble. For example, under no circumstances should you "fix" the horn bass clef notation for anything written in Europe before the late 19th century.
One could certainly make the case for changing it in some early 20th cent. works (like some pieces by Berg and Orff), where the current notation is frequently played wrong unless corrected by someone in the know. In many of these cases, the best solution would be to eliminate the bass clef notation entirely rather than converting it to new notation.
Old horn bass clef functioned much like an alto clef. (It is only a half-space different than alto clef.) But most commonly it was only used when there would be more than two or three leger lines below the staff in treble clef. Some early 20th cent. composers (esp. in Germany) expanded its use to a much wider compass--a fully-realized "alto bass" clef if you will. But the rest of the world did not follow them, adopting instead the true bass clef for the horn. Hence the confusion among many horn players now.
-- Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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