I don't like labels, as they are implicitly binary. I think we all recognize that some traditions keep the elephants away. But practices obsolesce. Some people need to be convinced that that has happened, and some need to be convinced that it hasn't. The former are more conservative and less liberal, as those terms are commonly used today (or were used before the Republicans made "liberal": a dirty word and our liberals became progressives.)

Some people think things should change and some people don't. Those people have different worldviews, so I don't see the point in denying them a label if they choose to use it. Liberals know conservatives when they see them, and vice versa.

I understand your view that material interests affect people's views of whether a tradition has outlived any usefulness it may have had. But where you say "dominance hierarchies, etc.,"someone else might say "peace and prosperity, etc." Your argument in that regard seems to me ad hominem, not philosophical.