Because it's not "this one small change", it's friction added everywhere where you're trying to communicate, while also implicitly (and sometime explicitly) being called evil for using well-established language.
It's also not 1-2 terms, people come up with new, increasigly far-fetched reason to ban new terms every year.
I'm trying to submit a patch, but instead I have to deal with a linter telling me that "blacklist" is evil, so I'm now supposed to either refactor the existing software or tell some vendor to please change their URLs.
I'm trying to understand something, but I now first have to guess what a term is supposed to mean, because each keyword with a well-established meaning has now been replaced with half a dozen of new terms.
I'm trying to push a git repo to Github and things break because different parts got updated to the politically-correct "main" instead of "master" at different times.
It's a no-win situation, either you just silently take it and put up with it - but that makes the problem worse, because people come up with more bullshit, or you push back. Either way you're stuck dealing with this, as you call it yourself, bullshit.
We have got: master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, master and now person-in-the-middle.
I’m sure we’ll find a few others.
You’re telling me these few changes and new terminology are too confusing?
It’s not like we are rethinking all of language. It’s a couple of terms and minor tweaks in ways of thought.
The amount of pushback is IMO disproportional to the minor inconvenience caused by learning a thing or two.
Remember that a lot of jargon that I cannot even repeat here used to be common vernacular not so long ago. My parents (and even I) for example were brought up with timeless children’s songs such as “nikkers dansen de troelala” en “hanky panky shanghai”. I’ll leave those for Google.
Broadly, my objection is that these linguistic changes have had no positive impact on anything meaningful, and instead act as a corporate smoke screen for real issues.
Because it's not "this one small change", it's friction added everywhere where you're trying to communicate, while also implicitly (and sometime explicitly) being called evil for using well-established language.
It's also not 1-2 terms, people come up with new, increasigly far-fetched reason to ban new terms every year.
I'm trying to submit a patch, but instead I have to deal with a linter telling me that "blacklist" is evil, so I'm now supposed to either refactor the existing software or tell some vendor to please change their URLs.
I'm trying to understand something, but I now first have to guess what a term is supposed to mean, because each keyword with a well-established meaning has now been replaced with half a dozen of new terms.
I'm trying to push a git repo to Github and things break because different parts got updated to the politically-correct "main" instead of "master" at different times.
It's a no-win situation, either you just silently take it and put up with it - but that makes the problem worse, because people come up with more bullshit, or you push back. Either way you're stuck dealing with this, as you call it yourself, bullshit.