Why have printmaking terms succumbed to the digital when it came first?

When I was introduced to printmaking 30 years ago, the terminology of prints was filled with distinct nouns such as ‘woodcut’, ‘etching’, ‘lithograph’, ‘monotype’, etc.

One strong, decisive noun to describe what one was looking at. “This is a woodcut.” Clear, to the point.

But then came digital and social media, and strong, decisive speech got hijacked with an overemphasis, an overexplanation. The clear noun got denigrated to an adjective. Social media posts and gallery exhibition captions have replaced the descriptive one-word nouns with the word ‘print’, while the ‘woodcut’, ‘etching’, ‘lithograph’, and ‘monotype’ are merely adjectives; now commonplace on the label or Instagram post is ‘Woodcut Print’. Because the mainstream world is now ruled by the term ‘digital print’, the terminology built on historical timelines, knowledge, and skilled participation has capitulated to this generic lexicon.