Do "super", "hyper", "ultra", "meta" actually mean anything different beyond just being "cool prefixes" that cycle in and out of favor either organically or suddenly when a major entrepreneur just comes along and names their entire ecosystem after one of them?

Well without marketing terms we have issues like smart-contract as a term being inaccessible to non crypto native people who interpret it wrong.

That said, we didn’t truly understand what a smart-contract was until we later found product market fit