Things aren't better because they are new. I think this graphic demonstrates the lack of historic context most people have.
While I prefer metric for many things, most of the imperial system was based on its design for human use. Often it just works better for human brains.
Fahrenheit: aproximates three points: body temp (~100), boiling water (~200), freezing salt saturated water (~0); ensuring any farmer can ballpark temperature and never has to deal with negative temperatures
Inches: feet are divisible into 12 inches: 2*2*3, allowing for a person to easily divide a foot into meaningfully small units in various way. And do it it in your head.
Metrics are chosen for a reason... It is foolish to think they are foolish just because we don't understand them. Like law... no matter how stupid a law is (and they are dumb), common law exists for a reason.
It is that ugliness in division that first got my attention. When I started doing a bunch of carpentry around my house, I was really surprised at how quickly I could do math in fractional inches, and how slow it was in centimeters.
A few decades ago, the USA embarked on a serious effort to convert the populace to the use of the metric system. All speedometers were required to list kilometers per hour, and all interstate highway signs were designated in km and miles; the metric system, and all its virtues, was lauded and taught in school. The public had a good laugh and told the powers that be to stuff it. All that is left of the effort are those tiny numbers around the outside edge of your speedometer, and that booze is sold by the .75 liter, rather than by the honest (and slightly larger) fifth.
The Wife and I were laughing during some renos recently. I was shouting dimensions out to her and she was writing them down: 19-1/2, 24-1/16, ... ... ... 609mm. One nice thing about Canada, is we have both on our tape measures. If one doesn't give you a nice measurement, chances are the other will.