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It's easier for handling real things.
Try doing woodwork in feet and inches for a day. Try it in metric for a day. You'll see what I mean.
It was crafted for the human-scale, whereas metric was worked out on paper by French philosophers.
Dude, WTF are you talking about? When I was a machinist it was so much easier to deal with metric. 1 inch ~ 25 mm, from there it is just way easier to deal with measurements such as 27.5 mm instead of 1 5/64 inches and all of these inverse powers of 2. I was always jealous of the French machinist I worked with talking about how the only units you should ever have to work with is meters and millimeters. If you are concerned about "Human Scale" then intuitively a meter and a yard are close enough for estimates and you don't have to deal with "wait, what is 5/8 + 3/16 + 1 7/64?"
Those are so easily commensurable! It's 1 and 59/64 obv.
It's set up to make this easy.
Let me ask: do you think people have usedit for hundreds of years for no reason?
Let me also ask, do you think the rest of the world moved away from it for no reason?