But, if you are truly convinced that this is a important distinction, and you spend any amount of emotional energy worrying about it or seriously debating it, you are probably desperately in need of a hobby or a girlfriend.
Why don't you tell Airbus that?
As for "throttle", it doesn't only apply an carburetted engine; if I throttle my
**** or ****, I "restrict" their output, just as I restrict the output of my jet engine.
This is merely a case of the Airbii types trying to be different, or poor use of the
English language.