> Not being a scientist myself, I'm struggling to understand the impact of these changes being made. Is it just a matter of increasing the precision of base uni

> Not being a scientist myself, I'm struggling to understand the impact of these changes being made. Is it just a matter of increasing the precision of base units? It's not entirely unlike saying "we used to ship this as a binary blob, but we're moving to a source distribution". It buys us reproducibility and auditability.