The use of "triggered" to dismiss issues people have is frankly, very silly. It's origin is in sufferers of PTSD who, when triggered, face very real and serious

The use of "triggered" to dismiss issues people have is frankly, very silly. It's origin is in sufferers of PTSD who, when triggered, face very real and serious mental harm. Yes, we absolutely should try to be considerate to people who are triggered by certain things if we possibly can. Now, assuming that you are just using the term as a trite implication that people bothered by these terms are just easily upset, I would question that. The transatlantic slave trade was a tragedy and its effects still haunt a huge number of people to this day. Would you be OK with using holocaust analogies in your code? I would hope you would say no, and I imagine most people would agree. So we have established that there are references that are not suitable to make, and it is a question of degrees. Changing these things is some work, yes, but it makes working with those systems nicer for a large number of people, for whom those analogies are a negative thing. I'm definitely not advocating that every other term in computer science is defensible either. If you have an issue with certain ones, I would suggest bringing them up. No one is suggesting that it should be illegal or anything, just some projects make those changes to improve the quality of those projects. And yes, how nice it is for people to work with a thing is absolutely a part of its quality.