A lot of mod tooling was built around the obfuscated or community names for those APIs.

I wouldn't worry too much about it breaking anything with how version-specific modding already is. And by the time the full release is out, I'm sure every tool will have updated based on the new names from the snapshots.

Still is for legal reasons. Also the community names (Yarn) come with javadoc that actually explains what the function does

Hyrum's Law