> Slot screws date back to the ~15th century, Phillips to the 1930s, and Torx to the 60s. They all brought improvements.

But Torx does not call itself "Phillips": you know the difference and plan accordingly.

Calling something "sudo" and then not working like sudo is the problem.

Sudo used to be in OpenBSD, but they found it too troublesome (at least as a default) so they created something else / 'better' for their needs: they didn't call it "sudo", they called it "doas", because it did not work the same way as sudo.

I dunno, all those arguments work both ways. They're both called screws as well, they have a functional interface that's the same on both, they were all changes that broke backwards compatibility in the service of improving their purpose, and if you got a product that includes "screws" you don't know which one you're getting.