For example, "developer" is considered offensive, because for some people it's very important to be called "software engineer".
Really good developers don't care about titles.
They don't have time to worry about such, or they have so much money / experience that even if you call them "smart monkeys" they'll be happy with it.
Same goes with sysadmins, SREs, devops, or whatever role you choose.
For some people they have shitty jobs: they don't have such recognition (whether for a good reason or not).
No recognition from work, no recognition from colleagues, no recognition financially, etc, that, if you remove them the title / prestige, obviously they would feel bad.
Source: my experience in a school calling itself "engineering school", and all other schools calling it a "place where to pee code"