They started calling them 'optical drives' so people wouldn't know what they are so they wouldn't be upset when they stopped putting them in computers.
@srol they started calling them optical drives when "CD/DVD/Bluray drive" got a bit too unwieldy why would people stop knowing what the CD-sized slot in their computer was for after it got renamed
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