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No scifi film maker from the decade after would fail to sight 2001 as the, not a but the, inspiration for their work.
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HG Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison and Rod Serling are all writers who inspired film makers of the fifties, sixties, and seventies onwards and into today. There are thousands more to pick from beyond the English speaking world. Don't even get me started on directors who made weird science fiction films completely unrelated or uninspired by 2001 because there are too many to list. Even by finding one example of a film maker post 1968 making an adapted film from source material different to 2001 would make you wrong. FOR INSTANCE: Planet of the Apes carried on well into the 70's and it wasn't inspired by 2001 at all let alone exclusively.
I don't see how anyone could reasonably stand behind such a brazenly declaratory sentence and one which is so easily proven false.
You're probably right about source and inspiration being acceptable synonyms but is that really the hill you want to die on?
You don't win one argument by starting another smaller one, winning that and then walking away arms raised.
You have said a silly thing that you cannot defend about a film that you love. I actually understand you wanting everybody else to love it but to claim that it was the sole inspiration behind every science fiction film afterwards is just stupid.
Trot out all the Ridley Scott quotes you can, Ridley doesn't speak for all other film makers.