Hahahaha... doesn't surprise me, and I can understand where they're coming from. I've always sought variety and colour in language, even when I wrote about technology, so for example we try to avoid the dryness of repeating 'arrives' and 'departs' par after par in favour of several different yet commonly-understood words or phrases. All good!
You need more phrases.Just look at the number of ways commentators on stock prices say that a price has gone up or down.