Drop Shadow parameters

in Adobe illustrator, my unit preferences are set to millimeters.

When applying a drop shadow the parameters for offstes etc are in inches.

Inch increments make the shadow jump large distances.

This is quite useless and annoying. I don't have time to input long numbers for each change in distace of the shadow.

How about sliders?

Why cant the shadow units be set to pixels so the increments are much less?

Or surely they should be in the same units as my preference.

Help!!!!!!

Yet another annoyance from Adobe.

Please stop changing stuff that doesn't help