Ugh, so I do think the term has some merit, but it's being misused more and more. It's how the far left throw around the term racist. It strips the word of most of its meaning, and when someone or a group is being racist, calling them out as such will carry far less weight because people have become desensitized to it.

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This is much the same. I might have cause to call someone ableist if they drag me around, completely inconsiderate of my feelings and preferences regarding that once I inform them of such; just as a wheelchair bound person could feel justified if someone just came out of the blue and started pushing them away or something.

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You might have cause to say its ableist that a business doesn't have wide enough isles for wheelchairs to pass, or that their employees refuse to help blind people, simply pointing at signage or something.

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What pisses me off to no end are people who want to be language police and call people ableist where you could substitute the word, 'ignorant' or the phrase, 'uneducated regarding disabilities'. But what if the person is interested in learning, you just haven't given them the chance, because you're more concerned with chucking people in buckets and labelling said buckets than you are about educating people.

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Yes, there are, and always will be the blissfully or willfully ignorant, and if you want to throw a little shade their way, whatever; however, it does us much harm when people are out there devaluing the word ableist, and using it where there is no cause.

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To further my point, what is likely to happen when you start throwing insults at someone who really doesn't care in the first place. Not much. It's just going to make you look the fool. So, when the word fits, I would say it's OK to use and it's not harming anything, and could be used to help in some situations. When it is weaponized though, it definitely is making things worse, and making the wielder look childish and immature.