Fair enough.

Sure. But the way I look at language is “if you can understand it, it’s right.”

If you understood what they meant enough to be pedantic about it, it was probably a fine use of the word.

Eh. People sometimes using “dropping” to be synonymous with “lowering.” I got what they meant.

Just as an example off the top of my head, when describing the temperature, a person might say “the temperature dropped by 10 degrees” or “to 20 degrees.”