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No, again, that is misinformation on your part. By your own logic every https connection qualifies as E2EE by virtue of traversing untrusted intermediaries as it crosses the public internet.

That obviously makes no sense as it renders the term entirely pointless. The entire reason for the term to exist is the difference from encryption in transit. It specifically means that one or more of the intended recipients (generally the service provider) do not have default access to the data.

The "meaningless" usage you describe is fraud seeing as it's an intentional attempt to deceive the consumer. It is factually wrong in the exact same way that slapping an open source label on something made available on github under a proprietary license is.