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I was confused as to what you were getting at. But I think I finally figured it out.
My use of the term "fibre" right? I tend to mix it up with the contractile proteins. I just remembered, "fibre" is generally used to refer to individual muscle cells and not the stuff within it.
Hypertrophy is indeed not the term used to describe and increase in cells. That would be hyperplasia, and it is debatable whether muscle hyperplasia exists in any quantifiable way.
But an increase in in contractile proteins is generally what people are thinking when talking about increase in muscle mass, and is the thing relevant to this little dialogue.