While I thoroughly enjoyed reading this piece of internet-rant, I've to argue that dB is still probably the best we have on this!

In RF engineering, expressing signal levels in dBm or gains in dB means you can add values instead of multiplying, which definitely appeared like a huge convenience for my college assignments! A filter with -3 dB loss and an amplifier with +20 dB gain? Just add. You can also use this short notation to represent a variety of things, such as power, gain, attenuation, SPL, etc.

I guess, engineers don’t use dB because they’re masochists (though many of them surely are). They use it because in the messy world of signals, it works. And because nobody knows anything that might work better!

There's nothing wrong with using a logarithmic system, that's not the complaint here. The complaint is that using decibels instead of bels is weird, and also that it's a scale and not a unit but people use it as if it was a unit without specifying a reference point, and also that the scale changes for different base units. Crazy how many people here are missing the point.