i have always attributed this feeling to the fact we live in a system where our contributions dont really matter, as in that we only work for a number to go up, and not because its actually needed (with few exceptions)
tldr: i think its capitalisms fault. as always
Decimeters are still fine, wait till you hit people with the Dekameter or Hectometer
if you wanna be real fun you can always swap out Tons with Megagrams and its not even wrong