Fair challenge and you got me there. I've been just adding that prefix because social convention demands it and not because I'd be feeling that way.

Or rather, it is an incredibly cheap way to shut down a whole range of dumb counters, so of course one throws it in.

But I do not love to break it to people. I am ambivalent about that. I just like true things.

So you're right on the "something isn't authentic here" but wrong on the assessment of the motivation.