A meta note on language: Everyone has a pet language peeve(s) and would like everyone else to adhere to it. But when people need to express an emotion and can't

A meta note on language: Everyone has a pet language peeve(s) and would like everyone else to adhere to it. But when people need to express an emotion and can't grasp a ready word, they make do with a similar one. Some of these make-dos end up infuriating a small subsection. My pet-peeve is disclosure vs disclaimer (why would you want to discredit what you're saying when all you want to do is call out potential bias!). All of this to say I can empathize with the article author's stand, but I don't recall the last time a word went into disuse because someone complained.