Indeed. I can only compromise so much, until it becomes compromised.
Naming is one of the two hard problems (along with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors).
We can argue about these things forever, but ultimately all that really matters is: does it do what we need? As long as the API works, and lets one build fancier functionality underneath, it is good. (Though, in my experience, any API written will be wrong the first try)