Words are made up and we actively change and redefine them when we use them based on context.

I get the sense that you were trying to correct the OP, but really OP is just defining “information” the way you’re defining “data”

The concept being conveyed is the same.

We had very little of it, and had to put in a ton if effort to seek it out, but now it’s thrown in our faces nearly all the time with the litteral flick of a finger. Neither of these situations seem optimal, but whatever the optimal situation is, we must have experienced it at some point because the transition didnt happen instantaneously