If your in any sort of real world (non design space) construction or maintenance work imperial system is “miles” better. You can visualize inches and fractions of an inch much better in the real world.
Once you get the hang of thousands of an inch, 1/8”,1/4”,3/8”… and so on it all clicks.
I would disagree with this. It's more about what you learned initially and what you are familiar with. Someone who learned metric and had to adopt imperial later see it the other way, as I do. Metric was taught in school, but I'm aware of imperial due to my older relatives being imperial native.
My own experience I only used metric all the way to university engineering graduation.
As soon I started working got introduced to imperial and once it clicked i liked it million times better. All the way from machining, building, measuring, thermal units, mass, force. It’s more intuitive. It works. That’s why it’s still the standard.
Another example if someone tells me this beam can only handle 5000 psi (pounds per sq inch) it makes so much more sense than someone telling me it’s rated for 30 MPa.
