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I can totally respect that perspective.
My real motivation was simply stating I get far better results by simplifying the dialogue to something that is better understood. I find it super annoying when someone is yelling words across a house at a cat. Like all you are doing is saying "stay away from random yelling ape making random weird scary sounds." Just keeping it simple, conscious, and consistent with a cat's cognitive abilities can generate real results most people assume cats are incapable of doing.
Cats have sensitive hearing and hate loud noises, so it makes a lot of sense that a quiet whistle would work better than loudly calling out. Things like "pspsps" and "ksksks" get their attention too because it's not very loud but has a lot of high frequencies that they can hear well.
They seem to like when you talk to them in a calm voice. They might not understand sentences, but they do recognize sounds. They'll look at you funny if you suddenly start speaking a different language.
Ah, I get it. It looks for me like the "target" of your annoyance is that some people expect their cats to behave like humans, including understanding speech; that's far from true and it goes way past the human instinct that I mentioned.