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The definition of literally has ben changed to mean either literally or figuratively. It's sad.
I really think that's temporary tho, I don't see it sprinkled Literally Everywhere like say 5 years ago.
"Literally" literally means "as written", or "in the literature".
To use the word "literally" to mean "in reality" or "in fact" is not that original meaning, but is literally - in fact, as well as a written thing - a figurative meaning.
Language changes. There are plenty of words that are their own antonyms. It's not sad, it's inevitable, and the sooner you can accept that the sooner you can avert the fate of becoming an old man yelling at clouds.
Is there a new word that means what literally used to, or do we just have two figurativelys now?
Actually, factually, in truth, for real, fr, no joke, seriously, absolutely, in fact, truly, truthfully, really, in reality, literally, I couldn't tell you, because only you can figure out how to say what you want to say, and if you didn't already know that there are countless ways to say that, that makes me wonder if you actually care very much about the topic, for realsies, in actuality. All you need to do is spend a few seconds thinking of another way to say it and you can answer your own question.
It's language. Of course we have ways of saying things, that's what it's for. Also you can say "literally" to mean "actually" as long as you understand how to say it in context, and the fact that you can correct people who you believe are using it wrong is a sign that you can tell the difference and you don't need to correct them.
And if we don't have a way of saying something, you can invent one, because that's how language works. People who tell you that there's some authoritative measure by which we know what words mean don't actually care about language. They're trying to kill our language, because a living language can't be controlled like they want. The good news is that it's impossible to achieve that goal.
Like if you're not going around lamenting the fact that "terrific" doesn't mean "terrifying" anymore then maybe it's okay if words change. It sounds like you survived that particular tragedy.