The main problem with imperial units is that it isn't a system. It's a hodgepodge of pieces of different historical systems, many of which made a lot of sense i

The main problem with imperial units is that it isn't a system. It's a hodgepodge of pieces of different historical systems, many of which made a lot of sense in their original context, but the context has been stripped from them and they've been mashed together with completely unrelated systems. A base-12 system would actually have some advantages, but very few of the imperial units are actually defined in terms of base-12, so it doesn't qualify.