All of those qualities you assign to imperial measurement seem likely due to years of use and experience. No one I know who grew up in a metric-only (in practi

All of those qualities you assign to imperial measurement seem likely due to years of use and experience. No one I know who grew up in a metric-only (in practicality, "metric-mostly") environment feels this way about imperial measurement, and they all wax on at length about the elegance of metric, very similarly to how you did about imperial measurement. It seems that context and experience are more responsible for the comfort with a particular measurement system than anything inherent to any particular measurement system.