Confabulate is definitely a more suitable and sensible term for this. It’s clearly semantically more descriptive and would do a better job communicating what is

Confabulate is definitely a more suitable and sensible term for this. It’s clearly semantically more descriptive and would do a better job communicating what is actually happening. The thing is, “confabulating” will never stick. People like myself will enter discussions about it and insist that it won’t stick, and because of that, I certainly won’t start using that term and hopefully I’ll convince a few others not to either.