It's not the name I would have chosen either (probably) but I wasn't around when those decisions were being made and nobody asked me for my opinion. So I just roll with it. What can ya do?

Oh for sure! Wasn’t critiquing your comment at all. I’ve seen the term a lot lately and it just made me wonder how much the industry is using it as a misleading hype factor. E.g., LLMs are “better” than Turing machines because they are operating at a level “below” Turing machines even though the comparison doesn’t make sense, as symbolic computation isn’t referring to the symbol-manipulating nature of Turing machines in the first place.