> Trunk dev and continuous releasing every push to trunk is not something I have heard suggested.

Maybe not explicitly, but that's how it comes off.

> Trunk dev is about how and when new code is merged.

> It says nothing about when it is released.

So why does the compound "CI/CD" term even exist? (IMO, it sucks; all it does is introduce the confusion you're deploring.)

> It's incorrect to think that any people doing trunk dev deploy from trunk willy nilly.

Blame, if not the people using the term "trunk", then the ones using "CI/CD", for this confusion.