The same reason you wouldn&#x27;t call an apple a motorcycle.<p>Words have meaning. For people who can discern the differences between these titles - probably most visitors to HN - these distinctions seem silly and almost trivial at times because we think &quot;of course those are different!&quot;<p>But 99.9%+ of the world is not like us.<p>They don&#x27;t know the difference between &quot;web developer&quot; and &quot;WordPress developer&quot; or which framework to use. They don&#x27;t even know there are lots of frameworks, let alone which use which languages.<p>This is why when you visit family for the holidays, you constantly hear &quot;oh, you work with computers.. can you see what&#x27;s wrong with my computer?&quot;