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It wasn't meant as commentary on you using it as the title. It's more that it's a stupid pop-sci term that has no place in the communication of a giant such as Nature.
It’s not pop-sci at all. It’s a term typically used within the field for what is described here.
Unless it changed in the three years since I left the field: no it's not. We tended to write stuff like 'genetically modified'. If one of my students would've written 'hacked' in a paper, I would've told them to change it.