Very true. Yet at the same time, it does route traffic to the appropriate boxes. And the name 'router', when referring to something someone has at their house,

Very true. Yet at the same time, it does route traffic to the appropriate boxes. And the name 'router', when referring to something someone has at their house, has entered the vernacular to mean "the box at home which lets me share the internet connection across all my computers". Most folks have no idea how it works behind the scenes, which typically is a combination of NAT (IPv4), routing (IPv6), DHCP, DNS, UPnP, and more. So, it's just "the router".