Although I completely agree with the sentiment that this should not be changed for all the reasons mentioned above, it’s worth noting that even in common use like “coffee filter”, not just EE use, “filter” often implies the removal. So confusion is warranted for any relatively new programmers, though they’d experience this regardless of language choice.
But it’s just something to get used to since, like others have said, this is the convention in all programming languages.
edit: also see Filter (higher-order function) - Wikipedia