It's not even close. We're talking about soft Vs hard bricking, and how "to brick" usually means hard bricking instead of soft, whereas if you said the update exploded the devices you'd be outright lying.
You might be, but the submission and the submission title doesn't, hence people calling it incorrect. As it stands right now, it's as much of a outright lie as saying they're exploding.
As I said, "brick" is as good of a choice as "explosive", but you do you.