There one sure proof that leads this “investigation” to a full end. In Mario odyssey, why would all the toads have hats over hats? Second, if it was a hat you wouldn’t be able to capture toad unless he wasn’t wearing the “hat”.

I completely disagree. I can see how linear can be interpreted as bad, but that comes at the readers fault by giving a negative conotation to a term that has none. Sure a couple of years ago it might have been considered a bad thing in the lingo, but we shouldn’t be hanging on to it as we do.