(x) nobody is about to renumber every event in history
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A perfect calendar is impossible, but the Gregorian calendar falls a LONG way short of the best we could do.
But even in the ideal case, the total amount of potential improvement is far too small to justify the switch.
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We choose among imperfect systems, and the best we can do is the imperfect system whose imperfections we fully understand
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A calendar too similar to the Gregorian calendar will be ambiguous. A calendar too radically different will be unpalatable.
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