Revisiting Tribute to the Master vs targeting

Tribute to the Master has a similar text template to Vaticination, Border Skirmish, and Petra Resonance

I know it has been ruled in 2010 that Tribute does not target your vampires
However, I wonder if it may be time to revisit the ruling and if it needs to be reversed

The rules for targeting say:

Target: A Methuselah or a card being affected by another card or effect (usually an action) that is not a referendum. Many cards or effects will have one or more targets, and the specific eligible targets are defined in their card texts. <snip> Sets of counters on a card (such as blood on a vampire) or possessed by a Methuselah (such as pool) are never targeted directly: they can only be targeted as a quantity via the card or the Methuselah. The card or Methuselah does not need to have that exact quantity: if they do not have enough of these counters, then as many counters as possible are affected...

Tribute looks like it fits the requirements for counting as targeting your vampires, via both the rules for targeting and the similarity to the listed cards
I know Directed Actions have a separate set of rules for themselves, and that is probably the only argument I can find as to why Tribute is not targeting your vampires