I think you are saying the same thing in a different manner. The other two lobes being the “legs” at the bottom. Looking at pictures of sugar maple leaves, both descriptions fit to me.
Forgive my crude drawings. I did not read it that way. This is what they described before the edit.
This is what I describe as the iconic maple leaf, and accurate to life:
Was the part with the two legs added in an edit? It was there by the time I commented (obviously, as I mentioned it). Without that part, then yeah, that description is off