Yeah, metric... based on tens... that’s why the circumference of the Earth is 40,000 km.
There’s nothing backward about using what we use. The scientific literature already is riddled with metric system measurements, and there’s nothing wrong with that, either.
The UK has used the metric system for quite a long time now, even adapting their legacy currency system (circa 1974. Somewhere around here I have a half penny coin, big bugger, copper, from before the conversion; the “haypenny” began as, literally, half of a copper penny, but became a coin in its own right at some point). But people in Britain still buy and sell commodities like flour and seed and so forth, and reference their body weight, using “stone”, which is 14 pounds, and that particular measurement doesn’t/didn’t survive in the US, AFAIK.
I actually posted this article for the historical aspect. I did not intend for it to be a referendum on the metric system.