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I think the term "creationist" almost always is used as a shorthand for young earth creationists that accept the Bible or another religious cosmology literally. Catholics and other Christians that only accept the Bible as a spiritual (but ahistorical) document almost all accept evolution and the Big Bang theory (hell, one of the guys who came up with the theory was a Catholic priest).
old-earth creationists and evolution-believing creationists don't matter as much because they're not sabotaging public education
Some OECs are I believe a bit of a worry on this account (they believe the earth is a million or so old, literal flood, minimal evolution, etc) but you're right that YECs are the majority of the problem.
It's really just a slightly different ontological/teleological position that has very little effect on everyday life. Whether you believe the nature of the universe is divine or otherwise is not something that affects much of what you do on the daily.