True. And I’d argue that it’s only kind of barely a thing. Everyone is gonna hit me hard with the exceptions to the rule, but the vast majority of Americans and even the vast majority of people who take food very seriously have any inkling of regional cooking of Italy.
So the dining public writ large is just not going to get a lot of the distinctions between the cooking traditions you mention. That reality should not stop us on FTC from hashing things out, though. I know I learn a TON just reading the back and forth from those in the know.