The term disillusionment frames the event as one having lost something, and given that most people probably think that illusions are often good things (everybody, like, has their own truth, dude), it’s easy to see why disillusionment would have a negative connotation.
What it really should be is something like en-sight or en-knowledgement, focusing on the positive aspect of seeing something that one was previously blind to or knowing something one was previously ignorant of.
The term disillusionment frames the event as one having lost something, and given that most people probably think that illusions are often good things (everybody, like, has their own truth, dude), it’s easy to see why disillusionment would have a negative connotation.
What it really should be is something like en-sight or en-knowledgement, focusing on the positive aspect of seeing something that one was previously blind to or knowing something one was previously ignorant of.