[wyattpeak]

The trouble with this is it essentially reduces all differences to "biggest player wins". Because it almost never matters what symbol or representation you use for these things, your personal preference is largely based on what you grew up with.

I could resign myself to Americans* being allowed to pick the global date format to save a few cycles on an operation, but frankly I don't want to. It's not that important to me, and not having aspects, albeit minor aspects, of my culture steamrolled in the name of pointless efficiently is at least a little bit important to me.

Differences create friction yes, but I'm alright with that. I would prefer a little friction to grey uniformity. You're free to think differently, but you're not the speaker for everybody else.

* I should clarify that most Americans don't seem to want this either, this isn't a jab, it's just that if we did standardise everything their choices would probably be the ones which won out.