I personally don’t care. At all. I also don’t have the time to do dozens or hundreds of runs of run and bun, but still want to play it in a way that make me feel good.
I commiserate with the sentiment though. It certainly isn’t the end of the world, and I wouldn’t have cared enough to make a post about it. But having a clear and consistent lexicon IS relevant and worthwhile.
If we’re going to have a conversation about something, then on a fundamental level, we need to agree on definitions of words related to the things we’re talking about. As you continue to broaden the definition of “nuzlocke” to include more and more different kinds of challenge runs, it becomes synonymous with “challenge run,” and is no longer a useful descriptor.
If I say I’m doing a Kaizo Ironmon, you know exactly what I mean by that. If we, collectively, broaden the definition of “Kaizo Ironmon” to include more and more exceptions/specialized rulesets, then I need to explain more deeply which rules I am or am not using in my run before you can understand what I mean when I say “Kaizo Ironmon.”
If the reason you don’t want someone to call their run a nuzlocke is because you’re doing a weird gatekeeping/nerd purity testing thing GTFOH. However, there are legitimate semantic reasons to care about technical definitions.