The definition I gave is the one people use. Hate or love it youre not going to change it to encompass end to end tests and neither will Kent Beck. It's too embedded.
I might. I once called attention to the once prevailing definition of "microservices" also not saying anything. At the time I was treated like I had two heads, but sure enough now I see a sizeable portion (not all, yet...) of developers using the updated definition I suggested that actually communicates something. Word gets around.
Granted, in that case there was a better definition for people to latch onto. In this case, I see no use for the term 'unit test' at all. Practically speaking, all tests people write today are unit tests. 'Unit' adds no additional information that isn't already implied in 'test' alone and I cannot find anything within the realm of testing that needs additional differentiation not already captured by another term.
If nothing changes, so what? I couldn't care less about what someone else thinks. Calling attention to people parroting terms that are meaningless is entirely for my own amusement, not some bizarre effort to try and change someone else. That would be plain weird.
