In this case the new (SI) standard was really succesful, almost every single country in the world switched to it and those that haven’t I think peg their units on the SI system anyway. Pretty good job considering how stuck with culture and business and whatnot measurement systems can be
Here is a pretty good example why in some cases “middleground” “compromise” can be worse than either extreme.
It’s like this wonderful xkcd
https://xkcd.com/927/
In this case the new (SI) standard was really succesful, almost every single country in the world switched to it and those that haven’t I think peg their units on the SI system anyway. Pretty good job considering how stuck with culture and business and whatnot measurement systems can be