Revert "Updating a few docstrings and keeping the format of units sent to the profiler the same for now"

This reverts commit 6d862b75108ea332518e1c0541ae53695faccb25.
Revert "Revert "Updating a few docstrings and keeping the format of units sent to the profiler the same for now""

This reverts commit ab69762101cdef650e14cc7e79861b6333098e97.
updating consumer_applicability api test using pic to use the new way to specify units