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I much prefer metric, but I live in the US so the Imperial units are what I grew up with and can work with most easily. The rest of the world uses metric, so I end up dealing with metric units quite a lot too. I have gotten to the point where I have a fairly good intuitive grasp of most metric units. I almost always use metric when I'm measuring things for my own use.
I do prefer Celsius to Fahrenheit for temperature. Fahrenheit may have made sense in the era and location where it was created, but in the larger world, where climate change is well underway, it no longer fits. The idea that the normal range of temperature fit into 0 F to 100 F was never true outside of the temperate zones. Just within the lower 48 states in the US we regularly experience temperatures above 110 F in the south and below 0 F in the north.
Also, it has always been true that the temperature that matters most is the freezing point. Putting that at 32 has never made any sense.
It frustrates me that the US came so close to adopting metric, then backed away, while the rest of the world moved forward. Now we're stuck with the worst of both systems.