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This standard would have probably caught on if they wouldn't have gone and made it backwards.
Objectively you are more likely to need to know the day first, then the month then the year, and when people get lazy they always just leave off the year because it is assumed, but if the year is first you have to say the whole thing or sound stupid.
Yeah that's more human-readable, but not easily sortable.
Depends on the purpose. For documents (especially those on which people work collaboratively over long periods of time) I find YYYY-MM-DD ideal. It spares the issues around day or month first when Europeans and people from the US work together, the document are easy to sort and, if it takes more than a year to complete the project (as is often the case in research) things don't get messy.
Run a business? Infuriate and baffle your accountants by insisting to do all business and keep all records according to a lunar calendar.
In daily speech you're correct, but the ISO standard isn't meant for daily speech. It's meant for timestamps and archives that can be queried in a systematic manner. In that case, the natural ordering is to narrow down the search by year-month-day.