Literally has always meant figuratively[0]. That is not a misuse of the language, that is how the language is used and has been used since at least 1769.
Here. Here's another article about it[0]. Like all language prescriptivists, you're simply wrong.
[0]https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-300-year-history-of-using...
Oh, and since we're apparently trading insults about linguistic views: like all linguistic descriptivists, you don't know what words mean. ;)