Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Could perhaps also have to do with innovation expectations:

This applies both on a small and large scale.
After years of worry-free purchasing of the next car, it is now being considered whether to have no car, or electric, diesel, gasoline, or car sharing. Necessity and economic pressure will decide.
We simply continue to drive our small Euro6 diesel.
Energy suppliers face the same problem on a large scale, only their decisions cost billions and have lifespans of 30-40 years and have more impact on the climate.

I think Nordlys is concerned about the superficiality of such renamings. Personally, I find the renaming acceptable, but I would never have come up with the idea of mentally or otherwise associating Roma and Sinti with Gypsies. Gypsies are, for me, fictional figures from opera and operetta and have just as little to do with real people as the Vulcan Spock or the Hobbit Frodo.

The question is, how much do you lose in quality of life if you are no longer allowed to say Mohrenkopf or Negerkönig, and how much do those affected gain? For example, the little girl in kindergarten who has to wonder whether she also wears grass skirts, likes to eat bananas, and whose daddy is Negerkönig in Africa.

Is it about quality of life or feigned morality? I grew up knowing that [Neger] has always been a slur, but [Mohr] was quite neutrally used without any derogation. And that is why I still call it [Mohrenkopf] today - and never [Negerkuss].

Also not currently politically correct: in my written German, there are neither asterisks, colons, nor capital I’s in the middle of a word.

But maybe I am just such a civil servant overfunded by society.

This is true on a small scale as well as on a large scale.
After years of carefree replacement of the next car, now it is being considered whether no car or electric or diesel or petrol or car sharing. Necessity and economic compulsion will decide.
We simply continue to drive our small Euro6 diesel.

Of course, what is currently called "transformation" is definitely a tough nut to crack. And no one knows for sure which options will prevail, what effects this will have, and what the world will look like afterward. However, that something must change because otherwise the whole thing will fall apart, no one can seriously deny anymore. Probably that is why emotions run so high here. A casual "let’s just continue as we have been" can no longer be tolerated by a responsibly thinking person. That is a fact.

I think Nordlys is concerned about the superficiality of such renamings.

One could discuss that on a certain level. It becomes critical when the claim is made that totalitarian coercion, even comparable to the Third Reich, is being exercised. That simply isn't true and is pure demagoguery.

Children...

The reason why the N-word, the Z-word, more recently also "Indianer" and some other words should no longer be used is a circumstance that is a PROGRESS: Those affected directly (that is Black people, Sinti/Roma, descendants of indigenous peoples) were ASKED THEMSELVES. And they say: It is offensive and hurts us when these words are used thoughtlessly, or for advertising purposes or even as brand names.

That we have used these words "just like that" for a long time is not a cultural linguistic achievement, but simply a disregard for the feelings of those meant by these words.

What Nordlys here perceives as a "totalitarian" intervention, I (significantly younger) have already experienced as politeness (a very old virtue): I discard words from my usage which whole ethnic groups say offend them. That actually restricts my freedom to insult whoever I want without restraint. How annoying...

I offer an alternative, because I believe I read between the lines what might actually have meant, whose posts I appreciate despite all disagreements between us.
Namely, that with such outdated language use out of ignorance or simply lack of understanding for the problem, it is immediately said: You are from now on a racist or Nazi. Which is actually nonsense!

Because this much is true: In some circles that consider themselves intellectual, a culture has developed of lumping everyone who cannot or will not immediately follow a language change together with those who reject it out of genuine racism and want to continue using the old words because they actually want to discriminate actively.

And THAT is certainly not something you can accuse good Nordlys of, I say this very clearly.

But also to you it should be said: Whoever clings to old-fashioned traditions although there are new reasons not to do so must be able to deal with dissent, as this is also part of the same freedom of opinion with which you want to use these words.

Example: 16 years ago, in the next-to-last school year, I visited Weimar and on the way back the former Buchenwald concentration camp. There was a snack bar at the parking lot which prominently sold Z-Schnitzel on the menu. At the place where people who had been called exactly that were murdered.
The older operators and older adults saw no problem. We young people, on the other hand, did—and it is good that there is such a change in thinking and feeling. This is not totalitarian, it is simply a matter of decency.