I don’t think you are trolling. There is a definition of virtue signalling in current social media that seems to only mean when the left is signalling their virtues, but virtue signalling is a pretty straight forward phrase that can mean any sort of signalling of virtues. I think you are also using it as if people are being insincere about why they are wanting the change. Just because you believe that changing the word ‘master’ in software development will not change anything does not mean that those who want the change do not believe it will have an effect.