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Unfortunately for the British, they stopped particularly penetrating the American public consciousness well before then, and so the American political understanding formed in the 21st century is the framework 21st century modern audiences understand.
Because it is not an improvised device, and insisting on calling it such for moral opprobrium makes you sound sillier than usual.
The Iraqi insurgency largely did not use their IEDs as utility-device boobytraps, but as victim or trigger-activated mines. This was echoed by the IEDs of Afghanistan, where quality and mechanical improvision for construction was even more commonly known, and subtle disguising even less present, as well as the IEDs in Syria and Yemen and other modern conflicts. Which is why the connotation of IED in the 2020s is of an improvised explosive jury-rigged into a function it was not intended for, as opposed to a purpose-built explosive sneakily hidden to look like a common-use item. The boobytraps of the Iraq War cultural understanding is things like dead animals on the sides of roads, which is the same thing that would have been applied to purpose-made military explosives, further driving a distinction between a boobytrap as a method and an IED as a device.
Disguising lethal measures as common-use items is a recognized form of western spycraft, ranging from murder-umbrellas to lipstick pistols. Heck, you can literally read a CIA history piece on disguising bombs as coal dating to the American Civil War.
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