> To clarify, what I am objecting to is taking a term for something with a massive negative societal impact, and trying to apply it to something...No one is "taking a term" and "trying to apply" it to anything. The word has multiple meanings/uses, full stop.
What you are objecting to is one of its meanings (attracting employees from a competitor), because you don't like the negative connotation of another of its meanings (stealing game). And that's because you believe that the latter meaning's negative connotation will make the former also feel more negative. But I submit that that's just in your head, and the heads of a few others, and the vast majority of people are able to keep two definitions quite separate.