about perceive

Hello!

I was doing error correction exercise and this sentence popped up:
While origionally perceived to appeal to young families it has had a lot of interest from millennials and the recently retired.

The key suggests 'perceived' be replaced by 'conceived'. I referred to the dictionary and got the definition of perceive "to have an opinion or belief about something". Isn't expecting the thing to be appealing to young families a kind of opinion about it, thus making it legitimate to use perceived here?

Thank you in advance!

With "perceived" I'd have used "perceived as appealing". It would also be good style to put a comma before "it".

grassy said:

With "perceived" I'd have used "perceived as appealing". It would also be good style to put a comma before "it".

Thank you!