> it's obviously advantageous to defend it religiously as "better than everyone else

Or laugh at ourselves about it, which is what we normally do.

At a certain point things get so engrained the cost to switch would be huge and the benefits don’t (seem to) outweigh it.

I think switching to metric would make far more sense than this.

It was just chosen earlier.

Here here! I will walk 500 km for this.

I'm sorry our paper size offends you. Had we have known it would cause such an inferiority complex we never would have done it.