”As for marching in step, heed the wise words of Henry Thoreau:

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

Instilled in me as a life-long guiding principle by my old father. You’re preaching to the converted. ;-)

But being the only one who finds a particular word ‘irritating’ doesn’t make you ‘right’, it just makes you ‘right AFAYC’, and adds no weight whatsoever to your argument against its use.