I always sort of categorize hacking as literally breaking into a system, getting it to do things it wasn’t meant to do, rather than simply stealing a password or the like, but I will grant one as a subset of another. Still, I think it takes a real quality caliber of thief to crawl through an air conditioning duct into a building, as opposed to simply stealing a key.
Your entitled to your opinion, but it’s a lot more sublime to steal the key. ;-)