I understand why this would feel frustrating to a highly educated Kenyan who may have an experience that are very different from a lot of the country and may fe

I understand why this would feel frustrating to a highly educated Kenyan who may have an experience that are very different from a lot of the country and may feel like they aren't personally living a "third world" or "developing" experience. But let's look at the facts. The per capita GDP of Kenya was $1878 in 2020 according to the world bank. There are substantial and systemic differences about that society that filter into things like the education system, scientific capabilities, and many many more less tangible things that make the realities of that country night and day different than the countries which wouldn't receive those labels. The problem with euphamisms like "developing" is that they are designed to say that in a less offensive way but it quickly becomes commonly understood as "poor" so then you have to make up new words on ongoing basis to avoid offending anyone. But the truth is, I think that word is vare rarely used maliciously and it signifies something that is meaningfully different than the things which aren't labeled with that word. So I get why it would be frustrating to be labeled that way but it seems that that is because there are some real, and frustrating realities underlying that situation, not because there is a problem with the word.