I have an opinion on it, but I can't write it here because I'd be in trouble

Suffice to say that I think the situation is farcical to say the very least. I can share with you the reason (shallow as it is), why the dual billion value came into vogue.
Our dear friends in the USA always want to be first at everything including having more billionaires than anyone else, so making the billion a lottttttttttt smaller permitted them to have more billionaires per capita and of course this was a huge 'promotional' point, back in the day
Anywhoo, I wish I had a billion, in any scale