I understand why you’re saying that, but I would say that scientific terms shouldn’t be changed just to appeal to the lowest common denominator. That isn’t science, that’s PR.
Now we do have a lack of good science communicators. A lot of people don’t like Neil DeGrasse-Tyson, although there seems to be less hate for Bill Nye. We sure could use a guy like Carl Sagan these days though. I think what Sagan really understood and was able to do in a way that people who came after him just couldn’t replicate was getting people to understand science through the wonder of it all. To show them that the real universe is a far more interesting place than anything they might read in any book of fiction from thousands of years ago.