Is BODMAS(order of operations) more than just a convention?

Question

I was wondering about BODMAS and searched a bit on google and found that it was a convention which was adopted to avoid inconsistency in answers. If it was just a convention, there could have been possibilities that addition or subtraction were given more priority than multiplication or division and so it would have affected today's math and physics etc... But perhaps luckily this convention turned out to be good(if consider today's math satisfactorily developed). So now my question is that if this convention had been like(for example) Addition then multiplication, would it turn out good? Would it work?

Answer 1

It is just a convention, but it was chosen to be as convenient as possible for the way we do math. That's all it is.