It could go either way, it is not always that the scientific meaning wins out, especially not when even scientists don’t find the new definition useful.

When I think of a planet, I think of a world that has active geology that isn’t a moon (I know excluding moons is arbitrary, and perhaps I shouldn’t do that; but hey, that’s language for you). I honestly don’t care about the orbit, and I bet that when most people think about planets they aren’t thinking about the orbit either, let alone whether the planet has cleared the orbit or not. I doubt that will change.

> When I think of a planet, I think of a world that has active geology

Wouldn't that definition rule out gas giants?

No just that, but whether or not Mars is still geologically active is still an open question. If you admit planets on the basis that they have a history of geological activity, then Ceres is a planet too.

I don’t think anybody considers geological activity as particularly useful for classifying things as ‘planet’ or ‘not planet’.

Why shouldn’t Ceres be a planet? If Pluto gets to be a planet then Ceres is definitely a planet.

But there is still active geology on Mars. There is still moisture, winds and ice-caps that are shaping the environment. I consider that to be geologically active.

EDIT: And there are actual experts which consider active geology (or something similar) to be a planet, including Anton Petrov (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-2HxrgqUnM)

Okay, but then you have to go and figure out which other asteroid and kuiper belt objects are planets.

The 'dwarf planet' distinction helps solve this! There are planets - distinctive in that they have clear orbits - and there are dwarf planets, which can be part of belt systems. This is a useful distinction.

Sure it is, but the distinction between terrestrial planets and gas giants are also useful, that doesn’t mean the latter aren’t planets.

I think it is fine that there are more objects planets then we can meaningfully count. Loads of things in our language act like that. E.g. a bug can be any number of things, and you know what a bug is by just talking about it. If some insect society then comes up with a meaningful definition of bugs which excludes spiders, that definition isn’t really doing the average user of that word any favor.

Yeah, probably strictly... But I’m not a planetary scientist. I’m merely a user of language, and I don’t need to be rigorous in my definitions. And to me the weather patterns on Jupiter is an interesting feature enough to count as geology (even though it is probably not strictly a geology).