There's a possible higher-order argument for `quiver()`: the name is idiosyncratic, and sufficiently enough that it might tend to get remembered, which is useful for however many more minutes humans are actually writing code in this world.

As contrasted with "VectorPlot": was that "VectorPlot", "VectorGraph", "TensorPlot", or "PlotVector"?

"quiver" is short and sweet and slightly unusual but also conceptually related in a sense to the function.

I'm not saying that "quiver" is the better name, though I'm offering some arguments as to why it might be.