Your "unqualified" opinion makes absolute sense to me!
I have never been able to discover why the British Army, the Armies of the Crown Dominions, and certain European Nations, such as France (leading me to suspect they adopted the term during WW2, as the Free French Army, etc) use the term "Section" for what the rest of the world generally refers to as a Squad, or local language version of Squad. Just a strange quirk that originated within British & Imperial Forces I guess.
The British General Staff have absolutely no excuse for not coming up with the German's tactic of smaller, highly mobile units, and just as little excuse for letting the Germans come up with it first!!
The British Army had a template for deities sake - the British Army created what was the very first 20th/21st century style Infantryman - in the sense of very well trained Soldiers, operating in small highly mobile units, allowed to use their initiative within their sphere, and using tactics such as "Fire and Manoeuvre" tactics and a style of operating perfectly suits the personal firearms infantrymen have been using since 1914. Except the British Army's template was created in 1800, several decades before weapons that suited the tactics better - repeating rifles and so on came into existence.
I speak of course, about the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" who a couple of years later where fully incorporated into the British Armies Regimental Structure and given the name they became and are famous for, during the Peninsular War against the French Empire - the 95th Rifles.
The rest of the Army, at least until they began proving their use and metal in Spain & Portugal, was very sneery and snobbish at this upstart new Regiment - the Rifles were utterly alien to them. They wore Dark Bottle Green uniforms, unlike the Infantry's Red jackets with the Facings in the Regiments colour. There where no Privates in the Rifles - the rank and file were all "Chosen Men" what the British and other Armies would later call "Corporal" and to really cause confusion amongst the Infantry, especially the Officer Corps, you could call the rank and file "Rifleman" but if you stepped into a hall where a company was sat resting, and shouted out "Riflemen to your feet" every single person, including the Sergeants, and Officers would stand up. If you asked an Infantry Regiment Lieutenant, Major, or Lieutenant -Colonel, who they were, they would say "I am an LT, Major etc of XX Regiment" if you asked the same of a Rifles officer, he would simply, and very proudly say "I am a Rifleman"
I think the decision to make them all Chosen Men was to reflect the fact that to get selected into the Rifles, you had to be a crack shot, and I think, have served in the British Army for a couple of years, there were no Recruiting Sergeants roaming Britain with a Drummer under the Regimental Colours, singing:
Here's fourteen shillings on the drum
For those who'll volunteer to come
To list and fight the foe today
Over the hills and far away 
Riflemen did not carry Bayonets - Rifles were too long, and unwieldy, so Riflemen carried short Swords on their belts for hand to hand combat - where in the Infantry you would hear the command "Fix Bayonets! the Rifles command was "Draw Swords"
Riflemen had a special March, possibly called the "Quick March". For several paces Riflemen would march, like the Infantry, but at a slightly higher speed, then run for several paces, then back to the speedier march. Using it, they were able to get to places quicker, and further than the Infantry, a vital element as being Skirmishers and Scouts, they needed to scout ahead of Infantry formations on the march.
Intelligence, so they could quickly adapting to events and changes as they happen, using their own initiative were also vital skills, and the Rifles had a looser, less rigid command structure than the Infantry, Officers were encouraged to maintain a closer relationship with the men, than they would in the Infantry, eating with them and so on.
And they came up with tactics such as Fire and Manoeuvre. On Battlefields, whilst Skirmishing ahead, and engaging French Voltigeur's Skirmishing ahead for example, Riflemen worked in pairs, 1 would Fire, whilst covered by his oppo, who would then move forward a few paces to their chosen position, then reload, the 2nd fires his rifle, dance ahead, reload and repeat.
They were also of course, considered "Ungentlemanly" because one of their roles on the Battlefield was to damage the enemy command structure, targeting Officers and NCO's.
