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I get the impression that they're using a different definition of refactoring. It would have read better to me if they had said restructuring.

Tomato, tomato.

Well except that refactoring has a specific description that rules out what the OP talks about.

Yes. The dictionary definition of refactoring is ”restructuring of source code without altering functionality”.

Agile, agile.

Et tu, scrumfall.