A pet peeve I share! An expanded version of this article should become the article on decibels on Wikipedia.

I've read that article many times over my life and for the first couple times came back thinking I was too dim to understand.

Transparently leading it with "Here's something ridiculously overcomplicated that makes no sense whatsoever..." wouldn't fit Wikipedia's serious voice but actually be pedagogically very helpful.

There's often a Criticism of... section in Wikipedia pages.

Maybe this blog post could work as a source, although it would be better to find something more established.