Maybe we manage conversations. Maybe we manage environments. The term originated outside of human affairs and came into being when our systems were based on an understanding of the world that was physical, material, mechanistic. There is, in my opinion, little value in attacking these words individually. It is the system of language that we need to transform whether through invention of new words, new uses of old works, new operational definitions or some combination of all.
Intelligence is the underlying organisational principle of the universe.