Utilization Equipment. Equipment that utilizes electric energy for electronic, electromechanical, chemical, heating, lighting, or similar purposes.
A device does not utilize electricity the appliance does -- the point on the wiring system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment --- you can blank off all the j boxes you want but they are outlets because it is a point of wiring which current is/can/may be taken to supply utilization equipment. IMHO just becaues you do not install utilization equipment does not change the fact that the j box is a wiring point in which current at anytime is able to supply equipment. By your definition a single pole switch is not an outlet.
I think that you make your own best opposition on this point.
An outlet is not a place where current
might possibly be taken, it is a point where current
is taken.
Now this reading does cause some problems with the mostly accepted classification of a blanked off ceiling box with no fixture attached yet (homeownwer's choice of what to install?) as satisfying the code requirement for a lighting outlet. But I find dealing with that a lot easier than the alternative of every j-box being an outlet.
(BTW, that means that both the receptacle provided under the sink for the disposal and the switch that controls it are outlets, and therefore you are not allowed to use a receptacle GFCI for that circuit since it does not protect the switch.)
Every j-box in a crawl space, attic, or basement (finished or unfinished) would be an outlet and subject to any requirements that are written to apply to outlets and not just receptacle outlets.
Perhaps, in this context, we can rely at least in part on common sense?