No technical reason, but clearly a political reason. And politics matter in an open project where diversity and collaboration are so important to their long-life goals.

You don't agree —and that's fine— but does it harm you to rename it? That is past the initial inconvenience of it not being the word that it's been before... Is that any more inconvenient than the other API changes that almost all software goes through at some point?

I can understand some light grumbling, but I don't see why people get so bent out of shape they feel the need to start summarising slavery through the ages.

"It's just a word" swings both ways.