Impact, impacted, impacts are totally fine for these use cases. As a native English speaker, I’d never heard of these rules against using them that way.
But even if there is a rule, it doesn’t matter; if the terms are used this way and fully understood by both the speaker and listeners, then the rule is void.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Wow, reading this has a huge impact on me…
While the definition may disagree, I would argue that language is constantly evolving, and the actual meaning of words is based on how you use them.