Reducing SI adoption to “gunpoint” is just silly.
It was objectively better system and that’s why it ultimately prevailed.
It was objectively better system and that’s why it ultimately prevailed.
No, it isn't, and I've already outlined the reasons why.
>Reducing SI adoption to “gunpoint”
Is what actually happens. The French pushed it through their Revolution, the Soviets did it in '25, the PRC in '59.
Interestingly, a good chunk of the existing Chinese measurements were metric themselves for a while: simply imposing a new order was the objective. Thus always to modernists.
The only argument in favor of imperial measurements you've given is that humans have two feet, which isn't much of an argument given the variation in sizes of those physical feet.