But if you think of them as the waves, any kind of close and stable wave superposition can be called "a particle". At some point, we might just drop the "particle world" and go with the "quantum systems".
I wanted to highlight for a general reader that anyons are not particle in the sense of common intuition.
Protons, which the article brings as an example of collective phenomenona, roughly follow a lot of “particle intuition.”
Personally, I don’t mind if folks reify these things to make it easier to follow, fwiw.
That intuition is also most likely completely wrong.
Electrons in a material are effective particles, with a different mass, vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_ph....
Partice != fundamental particle.