The logic being that a goal is some generic kind of thing that needs doing, and a task is one of the several things that can do it.

E.g., if there were some docker competitor,

build

and

push

would still apply to it.

E.g., it’s

compile.java

and

test.junit

, not

java.compile

and

java.test

, if that analogy is helpful.

Oh, I see @enough-analyst-54434 has already suggested something similar.