That doesn't make it a good decision. The primary audience of mouse
acceleration as a feature is gamers, and the overwhelming majority
consistently refer to it as Mouse Acceleration. I've been running and
attending gaming events for over 20 years, and I never hear them refer
to it as anything but Mouse Acceleration.

Example google query shows 4,500,000 results :
https://www.google.com/search?q=mouse+acceleration+gaming

This guide for competitive gaming settings literally has the first
recommendation of disabling Mouse Acceleration:
https://alexskra.com/blog/competitive-gaming-optimal-settings/

Here's another article that explains that the Windows term used refers
to Mouse Acceleration, and the impact of it:
https://eliteownage.com/mouseguide.html

And another: https://www.billelafros.com/how-to-turn-off-mouse-
acceleration-and-why-does-it-matter-for-esports/

Seriously there is an effectively inexhaustible source of information
reliably demonstrating that "Mouse Acceleration" is not only the
functional term that is appropriate, but it is the one that is used with
effectively total dominance in the common vernacular.

The justification (made by you, or other people) that Windows/macOS call
it something completely pointless can be countered easily with "if they
jumped off a bridge, would you?" style of rebuttal.

I genuinely see zero actual reason to call it anything but "Mouse
Acceleration", as it literally changes how the mouse pointer
_accelerates_. Putting aside the aforementioned points made about actual
verbiage used in the affected user base (gamers).

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  Can we please get Mouse Acceleration as a GUI control?

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