Sure, I think that's fine and helpful when places do that - and in fact not dystopian. These things are about explaining what taste/texture/etc a dish is trying to convey.

They’re trying to cut corners and swindle inattentive buyers. That’s it.

That is not it, and throwing short inflammatory comments up and down this comment chain isn't going to do much except clutter it up.

(Almost nobody who goes in to a restaurant is fooled by "Fish" in quotation marks on the menu; it's an alarming enough call-out to make anyone aware of it)