If you think you’re making up something now, you will be surprised. This is actually a thing, as there are “Stalin good, Purin good, Nikolai 2 good” people - they dig for historical confirmations of authoritarian rule being effective, and promote it: “let’s get ourself a tzar, he’ll take care of everything!”
I’m also in 10+6 gang, and it’s more universal, as in a decimal system you will always have a 10 or 100 to add up to, and a “pretty” 8+8 is less usual