I’m not the obtuse one here... genetic modification is what it is - done in a lab, in controlled circumstance, or in nature - genes are altered, and when one controls what occurs naturally, it’s engineering - hybridized plants are engineered. Cross-breed animals are engineered - I get it.
No, you don't get it. You apply your own self-serving, traditional terms to new lab procedures to which the rest of the world has chosen to apply a set of more descriptive and more accurate, new terms.
You are pretending things are the same which are not the same. And you have your reasons, I'd guess.