Honestly in that example I think you're probably safely within the classic definition, since its just a gap in tooling that makes it you can't make those types

Honestly in that example I think you're probably safely within the classic definition, since its just a gap in tooling that makes it you can't make those types of transformations automatically in baby steps. Here's an example of someone using it wrong: "We are going to refactor the API call to have 5 parameters instead of 4." The word they are looking for here is "change" or "extend", and they're falling back on "refactor" since they think it makes them sound smarter.