Thank you, sister, for a very balanced post. There is no justification for using words as one feels like at the moment.
However, I don’t believe it’s an accidental misuse. It is intentional, and I can only think that it moves something down the road in the future that someone wants moved down the road.
If one gets a pass on a misuse now, one can conduct a full-scale obfuscation or misdirection at some other point.
This is a sad thing to observe.