You hit the nail on the head.
Language has to get out there and boogie with the people, not just the academics who get to decide what is ‘protected speech’ so to speak.
And everybody using a browser to go to this site to read the article on their flat screen and maybe use the mouse to find the comment link should be glad. 20 years ago that sentence makes no sense at all, now it’s how most of us kill time at work.