"Venom" is the name of the symbiote because he has venomous fangs, unlike most symbiotes. Eddie used the name for the combined form to hide his identity originally, then kept using it out of habit when he went public. It was definitely a retcon, but that was their reasoning.
our timeline took a wrong turn 15 years ago when tech’s pr people decided ipad-like devices would be called tablets instead of datapads
They're just wrong, is all. The Discovery feed uses the same kind of algorithm as Twitter, suggesting tweets that are identified as similar to ones you have previously liked.
I was two years old, and some of my earliest memories are of my father watching TNG. n_n
"Uh, security? I've found Commander Riker and Coach Gowron stunned next to a mirror in the Commander's quarters...?"
I think I've been watching too many movies, because my first thought was "it's so the audience doesn't guess the killer is a woman until the end".