Also If you open major Linux distro task managers, you'll be surprised to see that they often show in decimal units when "i" is missing from the prefix. Many utilities often avoid the confusing prefixes "KB", "MB"... and use "KiB", "MiB"...
Why do you keep insisting the author is denying something when the author clearly acknowledges every single thing you're complaining about?
It's really not all that crazy of a situation. What bothers me is when some applications call KiB KB, because they are old or lazy.
It should be "kelvin" here. ;)
Unit names are always lower-case[1] (watt, joule, newton, pascal, hertz), except at the start of a sentence. When referring to the scientists the names are capitalized of course, and the unit symbols are also capitalized (W, J, N, Pa, Hz).
[1] SI Brochure, Section 5.3 "Unit Names" https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...
I keep using "K" for kilobyte because it makes the children angry since they lack the ability to judge meaning from context.
I think the author had it just right. There's a lot of inertia, but the traditional way can cause confusion.
So please don't mischaracterize articles in the future simply because you disagree with their conclusions. That's misrepresentation, and essentially straight-up lying.