poor choices of name happen all the time. we can't change them after they set in, so we have some really dumb use of terms today in the context of 5 or 10 years ago. it even happens inside of software development alone - the use of "responsive" in web design, which always used to mean "responds quickly", not "adapts to resolution and aspect ratio".

std::vector was an exceptionally poor choice of name...

is it so hard to just call it pseudotensor like it is? its confusing for people trying to research the subject when they come across all kinds of geometry and calculus stuff which is irrelevant to the usage here.