I'm not sure you're disagreeing with the post you're replying to?
I tend to use FIXME for things that really do need to be fixed, and will not push code containing a FIXME comment. Grepping for FIXME is useful.
I tend to use TODO for things that I'm thinking may be useful, but aren't necessary (yet). Sometimes it'll be "TODO: Figure out whether..." or "TODO: Validate this by measuring the impact, to see if it'd be better to do something more complicated or simpler." I could rewrite all of these as regular comments -- the latter might be "I have not validated the assumptions here via measurements; something simpler might be good enough." But the TODO is a little more direct. Grepping my code for TODO isn't that useful. (Well, save for the comment block at the top, where I tend to leave actual todo comments, but they're still future tasks not FIXME-style "do this before landing" tasks. And I label them with [ ] checkboxes, not "TODO".)
So we agree: don't use the same tag for both. It sounds like you use TODO for "we need to change this" and I use FIXME for that. I suspect we all have a broad range of labels: TODO, FIXME, NOTE, plain comments, comments linked to bugs, etc. When reviewing teammates' code, I check whether their TODO comments should have a bug link, should not say "TODO", should be removed entirely, or whatever.