>"referring to a terminal emulator as a console" is not only not perfectly acceptable

To clarify, you don't like it.

>it is downright erroneous on all of the platforms on which Kitty runs

You make it sound like saying something "erroneous" (which of course I don't agree it is) is some kind of magic spell that does something. "Kitty is a console." What, what did that do?

>You are confusing the novices, too.

Uh huh. Literally no one is confused by these terms, you're just disagreeing with the usages. Say to someone "open up an xterm console" and I guarantee you they will understand that you want them to start an instance of xterm, not that you're having a stroke.

>XNU's console is very specifically a serial or video special kernel device.

If a system uses a word to refer to something specific, that doesn't co-opt the meaning of the word. An "XNU console" and a "console" in the broad sense are distinguishable concepts.