I'm on the fence, having done embedded work, I understand the importance of hard-/soft-realtime distinctions. Our technical terms to some extent do need to be

I'm on the fence, having done embedded work, I understand the importance of hard-/soft-realtime distinctions. Our technical terms to some extent do need to be gate-kept against having their meanings watered down, but I've seen so many "realtime" browser projects, that I'm afraid we have to accept it has entered into the common vernacular like "serverless" has, in spite of the inaccuracies.