I think the whole argument over the definition of theory is overblown. Sure there's a group of people who use "theory" to mean some unconfirmed hypothesis as a

I think the whole argument over the definition of theory is overblown. Sure there's a group of people who use "theory" to mean some unconfirmed hypothesis as a way to discredit the theory of natural selection in favor of creationism. This is hardly a matter of confusion for the general public nor is it a particularly big deal. There is no singular "theory of gravitation", there are multiple theories of gravitation and they are just that, theories. Some are meaningless (like the theory that gravity is due to the earth and every physical object growing in size), some are useful for every day uses, like gravity is some kind of force whose charge is mass and whose strength decreases with the square of the distance, and some theories are very accurate but very hard or impractical to work with, like gravity is due to some sort of 4 dimensional space-time curvature. All of those are just theories, they have various pros and cons and use cases and problems to varying degrees. I don't think this is a problem for most people to understand.