[mjh2539]

I agree. There was (and still is) a trend in technical writing that began in the 2010s to be overly pedestrian and informal (and in many cases explicitly vulgar). The same impulse or geist resulted in many people naming their library or product a cute or contrived or irrelevant word.

Get off my lawn! And start giving things long descriptive names that are aliased to acronyms again! db2, netcat, socat, emacs (editing macros), wget...etc.