Really? I get that it's not the norm, but to judge the whole piece _purely_ on the choice of units seems rather judgemental. The imperial system, while unconventional, still works fine.
It works, but it's a warning sign, similar to a scientific paper not written in LaTeX or without a list of citations at the end is likely to have significant issues.
If you have so many papers to go through that you've started using such 'virtue signaling' as a means of filtering through them all, fine. But to apply such a method and then _take the time to comment about it_ completely defeats the purpose.