Reading through Beads author's blog reveals him to be a person with decades of experience. To me it appears that Beads is a well thought out attempt to address the multitude of issues that the author has experienced over the years.

NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter due to a confusion of values being in feet or meters. https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbi...

That is exactly the sort of mistake that the support for physical measurements mitigates.

There probably never will be a programming language that pleases all the syntax camps and all the semantics camps. Why not just use macro-assembler? It is the purest language that isn't binary machine code.