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> ROM is easily user-writable using a soldering iron and pair of wire cutters

Even a ROM is a RAM if you're determined enough!

in a philosophical question, would it be ram if your hands/tools need to move around like a HDD head? it could be argued there is seek time involved.

The lack of variability between reads at arbitrary addresses is a defining characteristic of RAM

It is RAM as long as you access it randomly.