In addition to that I find it confusing that the term kernel is often implicitly defined as kernel := linux kernel, although there are many other kernels where `git bisect run` is useful.

It might be a personal thing but I find the word kernel confusing both in the OS context and in linear algebra, statistics, ML. I find it very nondescriptive in each of those cases. It's almost like "kernel" doesn't invoke anything in my brain and I have to pause and think about it every time.

I swear the first thing that pops into my head, every time, is "corn". And then I go through the exercise you describe after convincing my brain this is definitely not about corn.