But most of these changes have been made with ideological goals in mind--never mind if they were made by academics or other professionals with ideological goals in mind instead of the editors; it still reflects ideology, especially when it's a conscious forced change.
Maybe it's a good change, maybe not, but we should recognize ideology when it exists.
Often, you can read out the ideology simply by the wording--the abortion case is well-understood, but even there by having rights be the central word, one implies a position.
Of course, smart people are good at rationalizing things, but that doesn't mean we have to accept their rationalization instead of applying some skepticism and/or independent judgment.
"Unhoused" does not provide needed clarity that "homeless" does not--everyone knows what the term means, and in the rare cases where you need to precisely know the boundaries, "unhoused" is hardly any better--if you're sleeping in a shelter you are technically housed but homeless, so...do people really uniformly mean "not sleeping in a shelter" when being "unhoused"? Instead, "unhoused" provides an escape from the stigma of "homeless", much like "special" provided an escape from the stigma of "retarded". For a little while. In a decade or so, given historical trends of stigma following reality not verbiage, "unhoused" will have the same stigma as "homeless".
"Undocumented immigrant" seeks to obscure the fact that the reason people don't have documents is, almost always, because they entered illegally. One might think they should have been allowed in, but "undocumented" is simply a red herring without literally being untrue. "Unauthorized immigrant" would have been the term to use if one wanted to actually be as straightforwardly correct as possible.
"Enslaved person" does do extra to highlight the humanity of slaves, who were of course, definitionally, enslaved people. This is probably a good change, given the strength of our tendency to dehumanize.
Anyway, the point is that it doesn't have to be either-or: you can have lots of people individually doing their own thing non-conspiratorially and still have ideological groupthink as the core driving force.