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Metric is intuitive, but also shit. Just because you have 10 fingers doesn't mean you should formulate a measurement system out of it. In fact if you actually give a shit about intuitiveness you'd go back to the American system which is roughly base 12 and therefore easier for division and manual estimations.
Tell that to the romans and indians who based our numbering system on 10