I can understand how y'all must get frustrated - being passionate enough about poultry to become judges and have so many people misuse terms and such. To this day I could still slap the ignorant person that said to me in a very dramatic voice "Wowwwwww. You work in the ICU? You must see a lot of dead people." It's hard to be patient after a while with people being ignorant and sharing misinformation about something that you care about.
All I can say is that I hope y'all remind yourselves that most people on BYC don't know much more about chickens other than they can buy them at the feed store. BYC has some good search engine optimization, so when people type "chickens" into a search engine, BYC usually comes up first - not websites that only have reliable, verifiable information on them.
If it weren't for knowledgeable people like yourselves and others, many of us newer people wouldn't get a chance to learn right from wrong in the poultry world. I researched chickens, heritage chickens in particular, for years before actually getting chickens as an adult - most people won't do that much work. Shoot, I'm still learning every day about chickens. There's a lot to learn, especially if you want to breed standard-bred birds. Most people don't even know there is a difference between the chickens they bought at the feed store and standard-bred chickens, heritage chickens, and all the correct terms used by SOP poultry fanciers.
Recently I had someone contact me wanting to buy heritage chickens. It was obvious that they did not understand the correct usage of the term by what they told me they were looking for in chickens. It was a great opportunity to teach them more, and in the end, they decided they wanted "production" chickens as well as a small flock of true standard-bred heritage chickens. Just have to remember to take a soft approach so as not to alienate people and make them unreceptive to learning the true meanings of these terms.
I think it's hard to get the correct definitions of terms out there to the public, when the terms are used inappropriately as marketing tools to sell something. The term "heritage" is kinda like the term "organic" - everyone uses it to make a buck and most people aren't going to do the research for themselves to understand the actual definition of the term. But that's ok. Not everyone is going to have goals that require proper use of terms or obtaining/breeding standard-bred birds. For most people, the birds and information (or misinformation) they get at the feed store fits just fine into what they want to accomplish with chickens.
I hope y'all can just grit your teeth and let it slide when you get too frustrated to feel like you can educate people that are ignorant of the true meaning of this stuff. Don't get so frustrated that you disappear completely and take your knowledge with you - without people willing to educate, all would be lost.