Yep, meant to type breathe.
Just because a term has come to encapsulate does not make it correct, just that those who use it as a generic term for two different processes are wrong. Take wine, there is a difference between aging, steeping, and letting it air out before drinking, breathe. If the term aging in wine were to be repeated by a number of posters in a wine forum to include the time between opening and drinking, it might catch on, but there would be old and grumpy curmudgeons, like me, who would still be attempting to note there is a difference.
I just take issue with confusing Steep and Breathe as the same thing. As I pointed out, some things benefit from airing out and some things benefit from steeping without being aired out. Depends on your juice. It would be a shame if someone's juice would benefit from steeping and made worse if it was allowed to breathe, for the same time period, and because of the confusion about the meaning of the term caused them to constantly wonder why their oxidized & evaporated juice never was any good.
Also note I'm not saying steeping is a magic fix. It's just a tool that might help that takes no effort to try beyond placing the closed bottle in a location away from sunlight. And some folks may notice a bottle is better after steeping because their sense of taste has changed due to healing in old "smeller". I'm more than 3 years into vaping and don't have to worry about my sense of taste changing due to healing, just mucus production impacts my sense of taste with vapor now.