Yeah, and poundals, slugs, pounds force and pounds mass are blindingly obvious to some, and easier to intuit for others.
To be clear, I'm not making a metric vs imperial statement here. I was just defending the use of "grams-force" as a more intuitive alternative to Newtons.
Easy solution, let's redefine the gram as 1000 times more than now, so, instead of a kilogram being close to 1dm^3 of volume of water, let's call that a gram. It is convention after all.
The thing is that we as human beings can deal with 1 liter, 1 kilogram, 1 second, 1 meter and the other SI units.
One gram not so much (unless you buy and consume things in grams and then no one cares, well unless is saffron I guess).
But nothing prevents us to shift that by 3 orders of magnitude, the math will still work.
Hey the math works for pounds, it's all arbitrary.
Edit: just to be clear what I meant, if we change the definition of a gram to be the same as a kilogram, then a newton would be 1g x m/(s^2) and the current gram-force will really be a milligram-force and no one will use it