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That doesn't make it a good decision. The primary audience of mouse acceleration as a feature is gamers, and the overwhelming majority consistently refer to it as Mouse Acceleration. I've been running and attending gaming events for over 20 years, and I never hear them refer to it as anything but Mouse Acceleration.
Example google query shows 4,500,000 results : https:/
This guide for competitive gaming settings literally has the first recommendation of disabling Mouse Acceleration: https:/
Here's another article that explains that the Windows term used refers to Mouse Acceleration, and the impact of it: https:/
And another: https:/
Seriously there is an effectively inexhaustible source of information reliably demonstrating that "Mouse Acceleration" is not only the functional term that is appropriate, but it is the one that is used with effectively total dominance in the common vernacular.
The justification (made by you, or other people) that Windows/macOS call it something completely pointless can be countered easily with "if they jumped off a bridge, would you?" style of rebuttal.
I genuinely see zero actual reason to call it anything but "Mouse Acceleration", as it literally changes how the mouse pointer _accelerates_. Putting aside the aforementioned points made about actual verbiage used in the affected user base (gamers).