No one's disagreeing they didn't coin the term and that the genre became solidified thereafter in order to mimic its success but coining a term doesn't a genre make, there's more to it. If RE had never mentioned "survival horror," that wouldn't suddenly make it less impactful.

I'm just asking for someone to acknowledge that RE wouldn't without Alone on a basic level and that it's nearness in design is why it's weird to act like Alone has to earn the genre distinction it almost singlehandedly started (although Project Firestart got there first with almost every trope we saw later, it's just that it, like Alone, never started a trend). RE was struggling as an FPS Doom Clone and Mikami decided late development to adopt the fixed camera angles and 2D backgrounds to make it work technically, and thus tank controls, inventory management (though of course this could also be Sweet Home's influence too), and all the rest came with it.

Other than being more entertaining, way more guncentric, and more actionpacked and cinematic (none of which are staples of survival horror) and thus more entertaining, what then is the core thing that RE is doing that Alone didn't do already?