Hence why most should avoid floating point, yes. Many people approach them as "oh, they're decimals" when they absolutely are not... but there are no convenien

Hence why most should avoid floating point, yes. Many people approach them as "oh, they're decimals" when they absolutely are not... but there are no convenient alternatives in most languages. So people use the convenient one that they see 99% of other code using, rather than something that is more likely to fit their expectations. That's the problem. People are surrounded by screws and hammers and they understandably choose to hammer in the screws rather than 1) knowing a screwdriver exists, and 2) hunting down the few three-handed screwdrivers in existence and trying to use them.