[gnur]

Words and their usage change over time. The cloud has become a term for a place where you can easily rent compute power, in some way or another. That ease of use (you just provide your credit card, click a few times and you get a VM) has become synonymous with the cloud, now package that all up for private use within a company and you have a private cloud, perfectly sensible.

It's not about misleading you, it feels more like they have a definition in their general use you don't agree with. And I hate to bring it to you, but don't expect those meanings to change to what you think it should be.

The origin of the word television is that you see (vision) something that is far (tele). But you can also use it to see stuff that is near, or games, or use it as a screen to read a book. It's still called a television though.