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to those of us who are not familiar with or who do not use Metrics
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I understand any reluctance to change to something new when the old seems to work just fine. But...the metric system is so so so much easier to work with. I say this from the point of view of having to work with both the imperial and metric system especially in terms of feetres and metres. Oh dear..all those fractions. Surveyors need to make a lot of calculations involving lengths and angles. The fractions are such a pain that all feet and inch measurements are converted to decimal feet. Even plans dating to early settlement of Victoria quote decimal feet. This gave rise to tape measures showing feet and only ten "inches". Many is the time I've heard about the tape measure going for a song at a junk shop cos it was missing two inches in every twelve
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The change to the metric system was a boon to the game. I would recommend anybody to use every opportunity at the forge to adopt it.
On the other hand spare a thought for us free thinking forward looking folk who have to tow the line the leader of the free world throw us, and have to work with both systems.