It absolutely is a petty thing to complain about. I won't argue that. It felt to me like Dreadwolf was the name they really wanted, and got shot down to a fifth or sixth choice done by a focus group wanting "Veilguard" instead.

The game titles had meaning. Origins, Journeys, Awakening, Dragon Age 2 (an actual numerical sequel), Legends, Inquisition. They were all about things that happened to the world that games were set in. Veilguard starts a very different kind of game, based on the name alone.

The previous games, like you mentioned, even stretching as far back as the first, Origins, referred to the world, and the condition it was in, and what was taking place. Not some semblance of mystical quality that you can't quantify.

They stopped taking the world and lore they built seriously. Even when they called the great evil thing in the very first game "The Taint" they took it seriously. And if they can't take it seriously, they don't have faith in what they built. That's when it falls apart.