this is less to invalidate the work of people who call their things 8-bit and more the feeling that calling their work 8-bit invalidates actual 8-bit work
calling it "retro style" or "fakebit" (coined in some music circles) or anything to that effect is fine
it's also just. hella misleading
what's 8bit about 24bit PNGs and 16bit sampled audio in a game engine running on a 64bit processor architecture?