Yeah, all lossy compression could be called "perceptually lossless" if the perception is bad enough...
Needing to define "perception" is a much weaker criticism than "isn't a thing and doesn't make sense".
It's easy enough to specify an average person looking very closely, or a 99th percentile person, or something like that, and show the statistics backing it up.
A family member of mine didn't see the point of 1080p. Turned out they needed cataract surgery and got fancy replacement lenses in their eyes. After that, they saw the point.