Thank you for taking my points with exactly the seriousness they deserve. I respond in that spirit. Taking the convention that “byte” always means 8 n-valued

Thank you for taking my points with exactly the seriousness they deserve. I respond in that spirit. Taking the convention that “byte” always means 8 n-valued bits: One advantage of a convention of 8 quaternit bytes is they can be readily used as 8 ternary valued bytes too, albeit with reduced use of their value range. 8 quaternit bytes also have the advantage of higher resolution addressing, I.e. at the nibble = 4 quaternary bit boundaries. (The last bit of modern memory addresses indicates the upper or lower quaternary nibble.