You can also call it SITC (someone in the centre) attack if you will, but the point still stands - it impedes communication.

So long as you expand the acronym in the first use, no one reasonable cares.

The same reasoning applies to "single letter variable names are fine".

Humans aren't computers. They have a finite number of concepts they can keep in their head. Using existing conventions leads to better understanding as it allow folks to get through a discussion without having to backtrack as often.

I care. Always preferred well established acronyms that everyone is familiar with.

From this day forward, I will refer to this sort of attack as a PiTM attack. Not much you can do to stop me I'm afraid.

> no one reasonable cares

I care. There's no need to make challenging technical texts more obtuse to read by reinventing all the terms.