TC: Greg is right. They really ought to have invented another term
for it.

PD: That's not what Greg said.

GE: Greg said exactly that. He said "They really should have called
it something else, IMO."

co-opted by the terminology police.

No communication takes place without an agreed-upon vocabulary, which
is why technical disciplines define terms very precisely.

Equating "Va" to "maneuvering speed" is commonly done, but it's
sloppy. You can scale both speeds down with weight, but you can't
scale Va up.