I recently came across a video of an American that has been living in Europe for a couple of years and he basically said that he started thinking in metric because he was just constantly exposed to it. Trying to convert it from a distance doesn't work all that well.
That's like trying to figure out nautical miles or the distance of a light year for me. Both are units that I can understand, but have absolutely no point of reference for that makes it easy for me to guess those distances.
Back to metric versus imperial;
Can anyone tell me how much a cup of butter is? Or however the hell I am supposed to get it into and out of the cup?
Cooking is better in metric. Baking is definitely better in metric. Weight is a better measurement in most recipes anyway.
The main reason why the US uses cups and spoons is because when most European kitchens started getting scales, the American frontier did not have these expensive, heavy and complex devices. So they improvised.
EDIT: Wait, this wasn't a topic about metric versus imperial?
Absolute trash.