I’m aware. The preferred name is clearly Vector and ArrayList is the wordy alternative they had to use to not break back compat. List is the name to the interface which encompasses a lot of different data types. But ask a Java programmer of they prefer to use arrays or lists and I suspect they won’t even think twice about understand that the list you’re referring to is a linked list rather than asking what you mean because arraylist implements list. A fun Java weirdness is that of course arrays themselves do not implement list
You are really out of touch, LinkedList is very widely regarded as bad for performance in nearly every scenario possible and thus hardly ever used. Array VS Arraylist is a valid question because they have very different properties.
