Agreed, although I’d say that the industry standard is to still call them outputs, just that they’re a specific form of output being the ‘open drain’ output.
For instance many comparators are described as having open-drain outputs:
TLV6713 that we’ve used before:
I’m right there with you. It’s an opportunity to learn vs ‘no, that’s wrong’ which is still useful but only in a limited fashion. Very much a teach a person to fish kinda sentiment.
