It actually happened. The US GNIS system was updated, and thus the apple maps and google maps have updated their maps to reflect

Other map providers will have to make a decision, but these sorts of things have historically been fraught with politics, I think most maps will go with whatever the official source they use has declared

Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling?

Both Google Maps and Apple Maps changed it for users in the United States.

MapQuest public refused, causing literally dozens of people to ask, "MapQuest is still a thing?"