>> I guess, thinking through it, you're taking issue with someone else setting a maintainer's priorities. You understood that very well. If you want a project

>> I guess, thinking through it, you're taking issue with someone else setting a maintainer's priorities. You understood that very well. If you want a project to fulfill your desires, either you do the work and preferably submit it upstream, or you sponsor the change. Filing an issue for the purpose of changing the language/concepts used in a project, to me reeks of very toxic entitlement. As you said yourself, "the language we use shapes the way we think about basically everything and thus how we behave" (otherwise known as 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'). Thus demands for change of language are in fact demands for control/power over others, the clarity of their thoughts, their actions, ultimately their realities, do you agree with that ??? I have no issue, if you propose better terms, which more accurately describe the concepts which we refer to, when we use terms as "master/slave" relationship, but so far you have not done so. If you do and promote the new terms, then may be gradually people will use them instead.