Your ‘first floor you see’ way of thinking only holds up for the ground floor.
Yes, but that thinking does hold up for that case. If it really bothers you that people take different paths through buildings, then the answer is to strictly stop naming floors sequentially (third floor, fourth floor, …) and only index them (floor 3, floor 4, …). In that case, floor 0 can be wherever you want.
Which floor you encounter 2nd in a building will depend on if you go up or down, sure, but for most buildings, every single person will have the same first floor they enter. It’s ridiculous to have something called the “first floor” that is literally no one’s first floor when there’s a floor that everyone has to enter first.
Yes, but that thinking does hold up for that case. If it really bothers you that people take different paths through buildings, then the answer is to strictly stop naming floors sequentially (third floor, fourth floor, …) and only index them (floor 3, floor 4, …). In that case, floor 0 can be wherever you want.
Which floor you encounter 2nd in a building will depend on if you go up or down, sure, but for most buildings, every single person will have the same first floor they enter. It’s ridiculous to have something called the “first floor” that is literally no one’s first floor when there’s a floor that everyone has to enter first.