were they complaining about terminology, or were they complaining about the prospect of losing their jobs?

I'd be happy to revise my opinion if you can demonstrate similar vocal strength on the terminological aspects for those transitions...

You also shifted the goal posts from qualitative to quantitative performance claims. If we ignore that technologies have multiple figures of merit and pretend it's one dimensional, there is a difference between the claim that the machine isn't "printing" vs the machine isn't "printing as well as a human would".

I don't think any of the human printers in the past exceeded the performance levels of current printing technologies, but surely they did exceed the very first machine printers, every technology gets a foot in the door in some niche, and then progressively captures the initially not-yet-automated skills of machine operators.

Would you say an industrial textile weaving machine doesn't weave? At the end of the day its just automation all over again.