Conventions on symplectic embeddings vs. symplectomorphisms

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As I understand it, a symplectomorphism of vector spaces (resp. smooth manifolds) is required to be an isomorphism (resp. a diffeomorphism), while there is the broader category of symplectic embeddings $f : (V, \omega) \to (W, \omega')$, which satisfy $f^\star \omega' = \omega$, but need not be isomorphisms.

Is there a good reason for reserving the term symplectomorphism for only the isomorphisms? It seems to me that the category of symplectic manifolds and symplectic embeddings is richer and more natural.

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This is an excellent question, and the reason behind this is largely historical: symplectomorphisms were orginally called canonical transformations and arise from classical mechanics where they are thought of as changes of variables in phase space that preserve the structure of Hamilton's equations: hence they should be diffeomorphisms.

You are right that from a modern perspective it might be more natural to use a word like symplecto-isomorphism to refer to symplectomorphisms and reserve the word symplectomorphism for the larger class of symplectic embeddings, but sadly that's not the convention.