In other discussions with foresight on their discord, it was noted that “-strophe” already was linguistically linked to bad outcomes, and changing that seemed implausible, so a different term was likely better.
To quote Dennis Krause, in Jan 2022: “I stumbled upon ‘anastrophe’ in the german wikipedia, which is more or less =eucatastrophe. But I also think that *strophe always reminds people of catastrophe, because it is the most common.” (This echoed Joy, here.)
In other discussions with foresight on their discord, it was noted that “-strophe” already was linguistically linked to bad outcomes, and changing that seemed implausible, so a different term was likely better.
To quote Dennis Krause, in Jan 2022: “I stumbled upon ‘anastrophe’ in the german wikipedia, which is more or less =eucatastrophe. But I also think that *strophe always reminds people of catastrophe, because it is the most common.” (This echoed Joy, here.)