All I did was quote the article. If you want to be a pedant, you need to take it up with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. I don't think a one-word answer here on HN, is going to do a thing.

Differentiating between hashing and encryption is not pedantic. But sure, go ahead and keep telling newbies to encrypt their passwords.

Perhaps. But supplying a one-word correction which requires you to already understand the context fully to be able to interpret it, is difficult to see as anything but pointless pedantry, despite trying.

The only people to understand the comment, are the ones it won't help.