Not sure if trolling, but this is ridiculously inconsistent.
The second one. By that I mean I'm trolling you. (Or do I...? Could go either way.)
You'd be the sort of person that opposed the introduction of the metric system
And you would be the sort of person who is wrong. I would like to see it as a worldwide standard, which would mean changing some of my own habits. I'm a'ight with that. The difference is, an inch would still be an inch, not "supposedly an inch but maybe a cm".
Make up your mind, is precision important or not?
Of course it is. That's why, when I need a precise number, I leave off the postfix, and state the real number. The only time the value is still precise with a SI postfix is when it's a perfect multiple (1.0M), or you specify the value out to the required number of decimal places (32.768k). If you have to specify more than two or three decimals, you probably shouldn't be shifting scales that lose precision.
But, there are ample times when I need to convey the general quantity of something -- like a 10k resistor, for example. We understand it may not (and probably won't be) 10,000.000 ohms. It has a tolerance, also specified if it matters, and we all agree to accept any error one way or the other. And, we also understand that a 5% error on a 100R resistor is closer to the actual value than 5% on a 1M resistor. Yet, no one is proposing new units for resistors...
If you think that it's a good idea for G to unavoidably imply a +/- 10% error, why are you getting so upset about existing material using the "wrong" term now? The existing material was always vague, right, so what difference does it make?
I'm not terribly upset about it being "wrong" now, I just find it unhelpful to say there's now an unambiguous unit for 2^x, but the 10^x unit is still just as ambiguous as ever -- except now, it's "supposed to be" accurate too. The only way you'd know for sure is if someone left a footnote saying "actual MB, not MiB" -- and if it mattered either way, why not footnote with "MB = 1,000,000" as we're doing now? In most scenarios, "MB = ~1 million" is good enough, so... as I said... it's a non-fix for a non-problem.