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@Dan Peterson: In the dg setting, $0$ is terminal as well as initial, right? Then there is no inconsistency! Also, oper in operads stands for operations, and their pigheaded inventor says that operads must include the identity operation (given by $id\in \mathcal{O}(1)$. That is what gives the unit in the associated monad, which the ad in operad stands for.
