The question is: Are we asked to change it? The quotes hark back to Japanese first impression of the west using the term. They did not state that they want us to use a different term, Yoshi-P recalled his teams impressions of foreign reactions to their products from 20 years ago. The referenced Interview with the Xenoblade Devs also does not echo the Sentiment Yoshi-P put forth. As far as I can see all articles putting JRPG out as a discriminatory term are referencing the same single Interview.

I mean, I do understand that JRPG is somewhat problematic.

The problems it's not going to change because it's too deeply ingrained, and if you try to introduce another term it's just going to end up being either nobody understanding what you mean, or what is already happening where we try to briefly describe JRPGs as something else and people point to this other genre with that one mechanic that is still massively different from JRPGs.

Like we could just say "Dragon Quest-Clone", or "Final Fantasy-Clone", or "pokemon clone" but that'd be significantly more insulting to devs I feel, but really what people want are the kind of turn-based combat you'd see in Pokemon, Earthbound or Final Fantasy. But like the only way it's changing 30 years later is if you use a term that's much more "There's no way you don't know what this is" than JRPG.

Yeah... I wasn't aware of the feeling of the Japanese developers, I grew up using the term, and when I saw and interview and realized how it felt for the developers? Heard that they cringe when they hear it, feel cut out of some game mechanics because of stereotypes, that they feel it means they don't make "real RPGs", I decided I was going to drop it.

While I had never said it to hurt anyone, they were hurt none the less.

I'm trying to take it out of my language and there was a time I went around announcing I was a big fan of the genre specifically!