I gotta say, you make some fair points.

It’s a lot of memorization that I simply haven’t done and won’t ever have to do.

The fraction reduction doesn’t help intuitive thought. If imperial operated on ‘significant digits’ and marked any set or document with a 64th always as 64ths, as in 16/64ths, I’d be more on board.

We just need to replace out base 10 system of counting with base 12 and we’d get the best of both worlds!