Zoom knows exactly what end-to-end encryption means, and always has. Most likely their marketing group didn't like their engineering group telling them this nice buzzword didn't apply and intentionally chose to misuse it.
"End-to-end" is often (incorrectly) used to simply describe SSL/TLS protection from web browser to server. Not technically wrong, but also not how most developers understand the term.
"End-to-end" is often (incorrectly) used to simply describe SSL/TLS protection from web browser to server. Not technically wrong, but also not how most developers understand the term.