I’ve never heard someone refer to a European dish as having umami, it’s just upper class people showing how cultured they are by knowing the Japanese word for savory flavor. To top it off it only gets used when talking about the big three Asian countries. No one is talking about the umami profile of Vietnamese food. It’s the same kind of Anglo person who would read Sun Tzu while drinking lapsang souchong in the mid 20th century. Both are fine things, but together you know this guy is sad about the fall of the British Empire.
Im not meaning this in a chud "oh people are triggered either way" but it feels like if a new english word was invented for it that wouldn't be considered any better but instead probably just being seen as westerners denying the origin of where they took this concept from.