A properly designed volume control affects the sound power output logarithmically, but is labeled linearly (with 1-11 or 0-1 or something like that) to reflect how humans perceive the effect.
People in the field get this wrong all the time — for instance, the volume control on ChromeOS appears to be a linear multiplier, yielding a control with huge perceived steps in the output between 0 and 3, and negligible perceived change in the output between 7 and 10.
I suspect that the confusing design of the dB contributes towards how often such mistakes get made.
OP isn't criticizing logarithmic scale in general but dB in particular.
If dB in particular aligned well with human experience - volume knobs would be labeled with dB values instead of 1-11.