Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure the only reason we use base-ten now is because that’s what the Europeans adopted later on.
It was the French who tried making everything base ten. They were succesful in implementing the Metric system for many measurements but weren’t successful in implementing Decimal Time. At the time the English clockmakers were more advanced than the French ones. (This is the same reason that degrees of longitude are based on Greenwich and not Paris)