The article addresses the fact that it’s a bad definition, but since it is discussing a study they have to work with the definition the study used.

Their first mistake was still being on twitter

Nice to see some figures on the change in support levels. I was donating €5 a month and I’ve bumped it up to €50 for the next few months.

I get the impression that a lot of the people complaining on twitter are not even gamedevs and don’t know what Godot is, it’s just the reactionary pile-on du jour.