"There's something intuitive about measuring force as being analogous to mass (not so with Newtons and Kg)"
Intuitive maybe, but wrong. Force and mass are two entirely different things, as I'm sure you're aware. A unit like a lb(mass) or Kg(force) is an ambomination as far as I'm concerned.
But highly useful abominations. Real life tends to intrude on the perfection of idealized systems. Nearly every item in the grocery store gives the weight in pounds and the mass in grams as equivalents.
SD