Oh for sure. As has em-dashes -- a glorious tidbit primarily used by writers in the past to circumvent parenthetical clauses. Also the incredibly abused "load-bearing."
Meanwhile, I just want people to think about the production possibilities frontier.
Not really. The Pareto frontier is itself a distribution over all optimisation paths and dominance is a real and useful property we test when researching evolutionary methods. It’s not chosen to be insufferable but to try to be precise.