Not on my definition. I'm trying to figure out your perspective because there is some miscommunication going on.
This is the definition that I use for myself. But I know in reality that's not how it is in the world. In the world people will take boxing classes and never fight or spar. People will take karate classes and do forms but never care about how to apply the techniques. Then you have TKD tricking and TKD Martial arts dancing (yes that's areal thing). Crazy 88 is a gym that produces world professional champions, but they will teach people MMA, and if they don't want to get into the ring then they won't force that person to fight in the ring.
So in the world of Martial Arts and business I have to accept the truth that there are different aspects of Martial Arts and not everyone is going to see it the way that I see it. If I only open a school for people like me, then I would only have a hand full of people that would be interested in taking that path. To give you an example. In a Class of 20 students, I ran a Sparring class every Thursday for 1 year and during that time no one showed up. For 1 freaking year not one person. I kept showing up even though no one else showed up. I started to do some solo training that helps with applying techniques in sparring by myself for an entire year hoping that someone would Join. It wasn't until I shared my sparring videos with the other students that they became interested in it. They saw that I could actually use Kung Fu. I even had a Student at a different school ask me how did I learn how to use Kung Fu. Even after all that. It was only 5 out 20 that were actually willing to train like I did.
If that's all that I'm going to do then I'm going to be broke. No school, no equipment for students, no students.. Sometimes you have to meet people where they are and for the goals they want to accomplish.
But now I have a better understanding of why you see online classes the way you do.
Edit on this: When I say I see Martial Arts similar to how you see it, I mean I think people should train all of it including the sparring. But where I differ is that I don't see it as a dance if they don't train the martial part. Even if they don't do the sparring they are still doing martial arts, if they are practicing the techniques, in a way that would be correct with the application of it.