Dude, listen, the definition of archery has been posted, and its not debatable. Your attempts to do so are nothing but childish nonsense.
If you glue limbs and a string to it, its still not a bow, as the arrow is fired pneumatically. Thats just a stupid statement.
Until you show me where you worked at Crosman, and helped develop the product, your reasoning behind why they developed it are nothing more than a guess.
Bow season was not created for people to learn archery, you do that with targets before you go hunting. It was created to allow time for people to hunt with weapons that need different conditions to be successful than what firearms season provides. Whether you like it or not, a crossbow is a type of archery equipment. I didnt make it up, its a fact.