What I said was about typing assistants and about efficient naming. But after reading the article, I would make a point for svc being not a bad decision. Ask any otherwise uninitiated programmer what meaning she would associate with "svc" or "service". You don't get anything useful out of either without additional context. Even

    /svc, which is a bundle of services from the environment in which the application runs.

is not really enough for me to understand what this is about.

Now, since this is a distinctive concept that comes with a learning cost, why not make a short name like "svc" for it? That is actually more distinctive than "service". And you save 4 characters every time you read or write it.