In physics, we have laws, rules, models, equations, theories, theorems, postulates, and maybe more. I can't think of one instance in which something has been "promoted" from one to the other after some data came in and couldn't even rank these in terms of certainty.

We still call it Newton's law even though we know it's wrong. We still call it Born rule even though it's one of the most tested things we have. We still call it the standard model even though it's the thing that works better than everything else. We call particular Lagrangians in Quantum Field Theory "theory" even though we know it's just a toy theory which doesn't describe reality. I mean, "toy theory" or "toy model" is a thing.

Physicists aren't nearly as nit-picky as internet commentators when it comes to this topic.