I agree the term is not particularly useful, at least in as much as people are unable or unwilling to define it.

In fact, a "favourite" of mine when people downplay AI ability to reason or question whether it should be called intelligence, is to ask them to define those too terms. People usually don't even respond.

But I don't think we quite get away from it, because if you exclude the racists who would be happy to exclude groups of people, the other end of the coin is that a lot of people who wouldn't be willing to do that, still really badly want to draw a line that will always exclude all non-human computation no matter what from being considered intelligent or able to reason.

And the term matters a lot to those people, because of the emotional aspect to seeing humans as unique.