Oh...so you ‘get’ it...I see. Try going back and changing a couple hundred years of titles, patents, legal descriptions, force all manufacturers to retool their plants, measurement systems, change the entire construction industry, the building industry for product sales.
No, my FRiend, you don’t get ‘it’.
The whole subject is moot anyway. With one mouse click you can convert every measurement to any system.
You want to live in the 16th century, be my guest. Again thanks to nerds. You’re welcome.
I was an engineering designer most of my life and I’m proud to have cornholed metric every chance I got. There are bolted connections in nearly every product and machine. It goes hand in hand with manufacturing, steel making, American standards, and economics. When you look up at the moon I don’t know what you think about, but I think of Neil Armstrong and a piece of wood from the Wright flyer sewn into his suit and the little old ladies who hand-stiched his boots.
You thing they gave a frig about metric.