At some point thock and clack turned into snake oil instead of straightforward onomatopoeias. It seems like for newcomers that it doesn’t register that these are categorical shorthand for an entire range of sounds. People may as well ask “how do I get a keyboard that goes pow and splat?”
I think a large part of the issue is that creators are in on the joke but reinforce the cycle by making content about it. Same as the MX brown memes, we have this dichotomy where veterans are laughing while newcomers take it as fact. Both get engagement and view metrics up.
This is a common occurrence in literally…anything in life. Inexperienced people need time and education to create nuanced opinions. Then they become the experienced people. I put a lot of blame on the most popular platforms encouraging short lived information (reddit, tiktok, twitch, youtube comments, Instagram comments, discord…you name it) and tons of this population growth being from actual children. Wikis and traditional forums like keebtalk are the few places that form living repositories of knowledge where threads can continue for literally years.