I'd have assumed that if you *didn't * change a word that doesn't require changing. I'm seeing it a lot in other languages too. The common denominator is that people seem to have lost a sense of belonging and purpose as a result of becoming too focused on individualism, which then propagates as everyone getting offended by everything and thinking the solution is to change everyone else. Censorship is too blatantly hypocritical and direct debate won't work if you have no sound arguments so let's resort to overtly manipulating existing language to force our views on others insidiously while claiming there's no point discussing such things.

It's just as ugly and pretentious in every language.

Not once in the history of any natural language has anyone attempted to hijack language in this way and expected it to just take. Language mutates by evolving, not by brute force.

And yes, IoT is showing good growth... and even if something new replaces it one day, you'd be in the same position as everyone else assuming you keep your finger on the pulse. Personally I see it booming along with microprocessor integration in more everyday things than we can imagine pragmatic. Cities being "smart" will become a popular tourism/migration incentive and I see AI playing a pretty big role role in micromanaging it. Even if the metaverse concept takes off and popularises mixed reality, there's no reason to suddenly abandon IoT... if anything they just synergise.