In general if people are genuinely hurt by the use of some words, I’m not sadistic so I’ll avoid using them

That’s a sane position. Only issue is that this have nothing to do with the question, and the people that were the most vocal about this issue had no business talking about it in the first place.

Ultimately, git is flexible; beyond some potential local and shared automation, anyone can call their local branches however they want, regardless of other and servers. Personally, changing years of habits and tooling (that probably should not have hardcoded some names in the first place) is not worth following a change proposed by misled people.

The name have nothing to do with being in charge of others, skill level, or anything, but, sure.