@nobody I hadn't considered that, and I do have some TRON nostalgia for "user", but hot damn do you make a good point, and "operator" does slap. Imma let that marinate in my brain for the next couple days.
🙈 'fraid I'm not sure which "TRON" you're referring to, I'm a bit uncultured
But I doubt it's anything inherent about the word, I guess we must've tainted it over the past 3-4 decades? It's kind of likea miniature of the situation with, say, "negro" or "black": it's arguably not by-construction deragatory, but is made so through centuries of deragatory or dehumanizing usage.
@MaddieM4 ...tainted by the joint effort of the corporate and the sysadmin cultures