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Personally I'm entirely used to reading "propellant" as "the stuff that gets oxidized in the motor" in space communication, and it's not our of the ordinary for what I'd expect from Ars. Eric Berger there tends to write more layperson-friendly articles.
In any case, they later use the word "fuel" repeatedly. Some clarification may have been nice but it's just not a big deal IMO.
As for how much, my expectation would be SpaceX didn't share. They used to be a little more open, but... Well, Elon certainly isn't any less of a dickhead than he used to be.