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Not sure why everyone's so prone to reinventing the wheel on this one; never saw anything wrong with https://satsymbol.com/. That it's not in unicode is less than ideal I suppose but that seems easy enough to fix. Alternatively, using n₿ for sats and μ₿ for bits seems straightforward enough. And of course, μ₿5.15 would be equivalent to n₿515. Though I guess the complicated part of this is that the American school system makes it really hard to understand the concept of prefixed measurements. Especially when one of the few places we all regularly use them (bytes) actually misuses the prefixes such that 1 kb may be 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes, depending on context. And to boot, usually is not clarified, but used to mislead for whichever marketing purpose makes the most sense.

bitcoin is going to help billions of people and thus needs to be designed intuitively enough to help guide people through simplicity

Reusing an existing symbol for two different values is hardly the simplest way forward. But at the end of the day, people are going to refer to it however they like -- there's nothing about naming in consensus protocol. I for one welcome yet another competing standard.

yea, and the billions of future people going through a new conceptual transition change with a lower attention span are most likely going to call them bitcoins. bitcoin is the well known brand. bitcoiners should embrace it.