Yes. The newer prefixes are *only* in powers of 3. Prefixes such as 'centi' are probably just there because of legacy. Nobody complains about milligrams, grams and kilograms. But some people get upset if you suggest the same for length. I note that centilitre and decilitre are less common in the neophyte UK than they are in mainland Europe.
There are many anomalies and debates about improvements occur all the time. For example, 'centigrade' was obsoleted because it does not work well in a 'prefix+unit' system. See 'Changing the prefixes da, h, k to D, H, K':
On the topic of 'thou', it is interesting that the British and the Americans only agreed on a common definition of 'inch' in about 1954. Please discourage the legacy term 'micron', it became obsolete 4 decades ago (because it is not 'prefix+unit'). The SI unit is 'micrometre' or 'micrometer'.