> What feels like simple observation when filtered through one's own worldview can easily land as a provocation with another.

You indeed show to have the sensitivity required to understand this kind of nuances, yet selectively as it appears in this case. The above quote is precisely how a native French speaker may feel when being forced to reassign a name to their own project, simply because someone from another part of the world ignores their language and culture, and makes everything about themselves.

(The internet is full of instances of pan-americanism. Take as an example the fuss around the word "negro", which in Spanish simply denotes the color black; it's the word used when you pick the color of your car from a catalogue, as an example, with zero racial connotation.)

There are plenty examples of English words that sound funny in other languages, yet people adapt and move on, because they understand that the world is not only their country and culture, but made of thousands.

Anyway, got your point. I think the persistence against this particular name in this case is singular, since there's an easy way out (spell the letters c-o-q).