It's trendy. If you don't like it, you can go write some go in go. Contribute to a thread on Threads. Write a factory with Factory. Write your reflections in Reflect. Keep in the loop on Loop while you recall what you did with Recall. So many choices.

Why not evaluate them on the merits? Is the name really the thing that’s important here?

“GitHub has so many outages, but dammit, that other one has a terrible name, it’s practically unusable”.

And origin is a pretty great name to give a git hosting platform. And do you think GitHub, Gitlab are original?

This is a great name! It ties back to git nicely (git pull origin/main), and sounds human.

Cursor was also a great name given that it evolved into an advanced AI assisted auto complete. I think their team does a solid job with naming.