'Picking" is a word that doesn't stimulate the modern guitar player's muse so in its stead "style" was substituted to give it a more palatable and classy term. That's about all I can surmise from the change, which has become the trending term sometime between when I learned in 74 and now. When performed on traditional stringed instruments like the violin it's given the Italian word pizzicato. It means to pluck the strings with the fingers.
To me it's more a matter of ascribing pedigree rather than rendering any technical change to the plucking of strings in a different manner.
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