As an explanation, not an excuse, I think this phenomenon exists because use of computers arrived so rapidly that society couldn't educate itself fast enough. We got skeuomorphisms like deleting files via dragging to an image of a wastebasket, or the old 1.44 inch floppy case as a save button, or calling directories "folders". Technology changed so rapidly that folklore had to take the place of any thought out or well-considered set of practices and vocabulary.

To answer your question, I haven't come to terms with it. I feel irritation when someone writes or talks about something like "task manager" or "tool" or "navigate to the login page".

Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.21

Those are recent major releases. Minor releases will look like 3.21.1, 3.21.2. [1] It's even used in their news and feature enhancements, updates. People can control their major releases with one file. Going from 3.20 to 3.21 was straight forward and I knew my machines would go from the 6.6 LTS kernel to the 6.12 LTS kernel. Edge is for the latest testing bleeding edge packages. I use Alpine on all my physical and virtual machines in the cloud, home router/firewall, NAS, etc... Everything is consistent, simple and clean. Boring, the way I like it.

    cat /etc/apk/repositories 
    #/media/sdb/apks
    http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/main
    http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/community
    #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main
    #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
    #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing

    bender [~]# apk update && apk upgrade --available

But of course, it ain't just the dev's who learn and use the codenames. Later in the cycle, Marketing and Sales do too. And since their job is to convince the wider world that v4.2 is the greatest thing ever seen - well, to 99.9% of the world, "Armstrong" sounds far cooler than "v4.2". So obviously they'll want to talk it up that way...