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Agreed, and I also hate a11y for “accessibility” as I think it is quite inaccessible when you first come across it and really it only exists because the writer can’t remember the number of c and s letters.

It's a matter of taste, and I find it horrible. It's also hard to type, compared to just letters.

I get it that internationalization is too long, but what was so wrong with using intl or something similar?

Because it could be intentional or international or initial or intel, as well. Numeronyms are like icons, they’re useful because they’re distinctive and unique.

I don't know. I am not a native speaker, but I think it is ok, maybe even better. We have gotten used to 'OK', despite its questionable origin (or origin story).

It's not supposed to be user-facing though, is it? If you have a code library for translating text and such, calling it I18n makes more sense than Internationalization in that context because Internationalization is just too long.

k8s, though?

And the shorter the words, the bigger a F2K Y1U it is to the reader.