Quote Originally Posted by Segev View Post
"Alignment" being related to morality or ethics is strictly due to it having been chosen by D&D's early creators as the word they used to state with which ethos you were aligned. If they had chosen 'faction,' this exact conversation could have ensued and we'd have somebody likely suggesting "how about something like 'alignment' instead of 'faction,' then?"
Yeah, but D&D has changed since those wargame days. Alignment doesnt so much describe which side you’re going to take in extraplanar warfare so much as a loose combined ethics/personality test.

And at this point it’s pretty vestigial. We don’t need it except if you are specifically looking for a shorthand label for some key RP elements. And in that case many other methods of shorthand description will do, and ‘alignment’ ends up carrying unnecessary baggage.