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I don't see Steve here as rejecting all advice but he is resistant to some good ideas. Maybe not rooting around enough in our manure, lol.
That word you used in a title is precisely the sort of ego item a good editor spots and a successful author accepts as a cut. You are in love with the word, as much as we become enamored of other clever turns of phrase. Writing 101 tells us we have to be willing to let those personal things go if enough readers point it out as distracting.
There are a couple of very good reasons others gave why it should be cut. It is hard to remember or spell and therefore to search for. Since it is made-up it also contributes no reader "pull" in the title.
No, you don't HAVE to do anything. I recall being jarred constantly by Neal Stephenson's huge ego showing in his writing, his oh-so-clever phrases, but he's good enough that I keep reading. But it is still good advice to an author trying for a break.
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