The term has been repurposed into philo-historianism. IOW A modern philosopher is someone who studies real philosophers. Look how the field is void of any original idea and at its endless citation of dead people.

Far to much value is attributed to "what they said" rather than the mind set that made them say it.

This could happen to any field and to some benevolent and productive extend it does. We normally put the word history or historian behind or in front of it like computer science history, art history, the history of foobar.

I have to ask: how does one write the "hello world" of philosophy? And please don't cite me a manual.