Agree ... I don't know where the name comes from, but I've become used to it since I use C-h l frequently.
I asked chat gpt about it, and what it said seemed to match what I found when I googled it:
> In Emacs, “Lossage” refers to a section in the GNU Emacs Manual that describes how to recognize and deal with situations in which Emacs does not work as expected1. For example, it covers issues such as keyboard code mixups, garbled displays, running out of memory, and crashes and hangs1.
> There is also a command called view-lossage that displays the last 300 input keystrokes2. You can use open-dribble-file to record all your input on a file2.
I asked chat gpt about it, and what it said seemed to match what I found when I googled it:
> In Emacs, “Lossage” refers to a section in the GNU Emacs Manual that describes how to recognize and deal with situations in which Emacs does not work as expected1. For example, it covers issues such as keyboard code mixups, garbled displays, running out of memory, and crashes and hangs1.
> There is also a command called view-lossage that displays the last 300 input keystrokes2. You can use open-dribble-file to record all your input on a file2.