> Super and hyper are roughly synonyms
Perhaps you're right in terms of how they're leveraged in today's society. I'll drop my pedantry.
They roughly have the same meaning in the languages they were borrowed from, Latin[1] and Greek[2] respectively.
Yeah it's random, but established at this point. The radio bands aren't much better[3] with their Very High Frequency (VHF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and Super High Frequency (SHF) and Extremely High Frequency (EHF).
[1]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/super-