that's ridiculous. I think it'll be simple enough to have -person and -people for 99.99999% of the cases. As it is for most of the searches. Look for yourself and you'll find out that "nobody" is not that popular in fact.
I agree. That's what negative search options are for.
But that only works if the contributor has used "person" or "people" as a keyword, as opposed to the more specific terms "man" "woman" or the like.
I don't really understand the debate. If you don't want to use it, don't use it. NOBODY is forcing you to. I, and the other hundreds of designers who have been searching at Getty for years and have grown very accustomed to searching in this manner, will continue to find the work of those contributors who have taken the time to understand, rather than taking the time to speculate about how dumb said designers must be.