I like your way, learning as an adult.

But if you were to hypothetically teach a child, then binary would be easier, and they eventually would memorize the positions.

Although realistically by the time they need their second hand, they probably don’t need to be counting on their fingers anymore. And I don’t think either of these systems is especially helpful for higher math, unless you’re multiplying or dividing by a power of 2. Maybe? I forget my 2s compliment operations now.

You’re not wrong.
But it’s looking like the alternatives are also fertile ground for corruption, so this doesn’t really render an effective criticism.

I don’t like a 1-party system. I’d like a 0-party system, but I suspect in practice it’d either behave like a 1 party system or a typical western partisan system where people form voting blocks.