This is sadly everywhere now, e.g. "data scientists" are just people trying to do a statisticians job without any formal background on probability theory.
That's exactly how I feel about this fake term. The job description should be something like "data analyst". Very little people doing that reach the level of scientist. You need to publish useful research and get feedback on it to call yourself a scientist.
I have a friend who got a real degree in data science and we talk sometimes about the people on reddit who ask the questions that boil down to EXACTLY what you are talking about. I just don't track that space as closely so mostly hear about it second hand.
