UMLR — New notation for attribute

According to several discussions I had with UML users, it appears that many of them, who have the intent to simply to add an attribute to a class, finally create an association to the type of the required attribute. In all case I faced, the reason was that they prefer the notation UML proposes for association which is much more powerful. Mainly:
Capability to get a modular diagram thanks to the “link notation”
Capability to show the aggregation kind

However attributes and association are not the same and it is a pity to introduce such a drift in the semantics just because of the notation.

What do you think about adding a notation for the attributes that would offer the capability to represent all their properties and to designate their type using a link?