I think college undergrad physics and engineering is an important time to gain exposure to a variety of concepts and measures. Then you learn the people who discovered or invented these concepts were writing by candlelight and not washing their hands and didn’t have modern mathematics or computers and didn’t want to piss off the church. Oftentimes working at the pleasure of a rich sponsor family or king.

Like you have to describe relative intensity of waves in some way and these were experimental scientists, not commerce merchants looking for absolute interchangeability like weights and measures.

Computer blog people like standards and languageisms but science isn’t determined by big tech sponsored committee. It’s the best tool put forward so far and db is a physics concept and with a reference denominator you can calculate the absolute value. It’s fine. If you dabble with physics and expect the universe to make intuitive sense then you need an education.

Read books not blogs.