No, the other one.
The dictionary definition of the word is not the same as the common usage. In common usage, it's fine as it is.
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Right. As long as the average person who looks at the trope title can understand what we mean by "pervert", there's no problem.
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Honestly I found the threshold for pervert in the trope Covert Pervert to be rather low.
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This has bugged me for ages, though I don't think there's anything to be done about it.
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I found "a person whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable" as a definition, and "spying on people to see them naked" would fall under "socially unacceptable sexual behaviour" (sometimes legally unacceptable, too). Most of our use of the word pervert comes from "spying on naked people".
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"Perversion" isn't even about fetish or lust actually - it's about something being twisted from their original purpose, usually becoming bad.
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Trope names are not necessarily supposed to be perfectly accurate, but clearly evoke an idea. Obviously if it only describes ten percent of examples it's probably not evoking the idea properly, but that's not the case here. In these cases, it is the other words in the title that conveys the idea, and sometimes using softer terms dilutes and confuses the intended idea. It's the same thing with a trope like Felony Misdemeanor (sometimes the individual did nothing illegal or nothing wrong at all).
A pervert is not someone with a healthy normal sex drive on a mission to get laid.
According to the dictionary, a pervert is someone with a deviant, immoral, abnormal, illegal, or socially unacceptable fetish, like public masterbation, collecting dakimakura & mannequins as sex toys, adults getting aroused by wearing diapers, getting aroused by beating people or being beaten, mollesting people on public transportation, exposing yourself in public, beastiality, etc.
It's like to suggest changing the name of some of the tropes that use the word pervert if the don't require the character to have an extreme fetish. Perhaps Lethario or Casanova?