Isn't "Artist" a better name?

[Mostly_Raxus]

Definitely not, no. I love those simple names.

Dancers and Scholars are also contradicting your initial statement because everybody knows to distinguish them from normal dancers and scholars. Yet their moniker is easily marketable and doesn't seem too niche and weird.

so then the little ladies day dancers are not dancers or are they dancers? and what about the sharlayan scholars, are they or are they not scholars?
so did Alphy change jobs to artist in ShB? or is that something else?
if you want to argue semantics be my guest.

all in all its a matter of personal taste, and my taste disagrees with your taste.
beyond that its not like it matters, it will be called a "PTM" or "PIC" by everyone anyways.