It's not an outage, it's an Availability Incident™.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/#what-abo...

You jest, but recently I also felt compelled to stop using the word (planned) outage where I work, because it legitimately creates confusion around the (expected) character of impact.

Outage is the nuclear wasteland situation, which given modern architectural choices, is rather challenging to manifest. To avoid it is face-saving, but also more correct.