I am the one who mentioned the above scenario. I think different people have a different definition or different usage for the term “misjudged”. If a routine flyball hit right at an outfielder is missed, that is an error. Short of a strong wind blowing it around like crazy, I don’t really care what cause resulted in it being missed. We aren’t talking about a hard to judge line drive, but a routine flyball that should be caught with ordinary effort every time. Every flyball requires some judgement and reading it off the bat to be caught and a ball doesn’t have to touch the glove to be an error. Now if an infielder fields the ball cleanly and “misjudges” the speed of the runner, takes a little too long, and results in the runner being safe - no error.
IMO, misjudging the ball is misjudging the ball. I wouldn't distinguish between types of misjudgments. I view 'ordinary effort' as the effort required the catch the ball at the time the ball needs to be caught. If you're 7 feet away from it when it drops, even if you should've been there, then it no longer requires ordinary effort to catch it. I also don't rule as errors balls that drop between two fielders, but seems there's a trend toward making those errors now. I guess the argument is that they were in position to catch it but failed. I'd still rule that a hit, but understand how that's being challenged more these days. I'm not posting for sake of argument, but if it brings more viewpoints, that's fine. Wish there were ways to get good instruction on scorekeeping. I feel like I've studied it quite a bit, only to find out time and again that I've been wrong about something for years and didn't know it.