There’s only a certain amount of time in the day. I could either fill my head with rote memorization, and gain no deeper understanding of the systems, or I could concentrate on something else. Robert Sayre hit the reason why smack on the head.
I hate them because they use their monopoly to obfuscate. Practically every term in Computer Science has a Microsoft variant. Like a cult attempting to indoctrinate and isolate, Microsoft tries to replace everything you knew with a Microsoft equivalent.
They certainly have a department of API naming. Stop it. Stop renaming everything.