I dig your point about the defects in using the word "observation" when the scientists, purportedly, mean something entirely different. It seems like you did some research on it, so I will trust you ... but the fact that electrons will change or become "activated" to be either particle or wave when they interact with something else is so completely D'UH that I'm perplexed it made such a splash of news when it was "discovered."
And why would they not only use the term "observe," but also strongly imply in all the stories I've seen and heard that it was, in fact, the act of observation and not any interaction with the physical that caused the sub-atom to become either particle or wave???
There's either more to this, or much misleading has been done by the scientific news media of the day. But I'm far too busy to look into it myself, so I'm content to leave it where you left it.