A professor of mine tried to get different language introduced but it never took hold. Maybe iNat could adopt Frank’s terminology and abandon the word “endemic”.
Endemics and Epidemics of Shibboleths and other things Causing Chaos
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495327?seq=5
Edited for clarity after getting shunted to another topic momentarily. Lesson learned? Don’t rely on which reply button you press to keep the discussion organized. Quoting is a better option if replying to something that’s not the most recent post. (threading and subthreading is not handled well in this forum).