There was a quote I read around the time of WebApps' Area 51 Graduation that was something along the lines of:
... you know the 'For Dummies' series? It kinda works.
As best as I recall, or at least the timeline my brain has created, this line was used as justification for reverting "Nothing to Install" to "Web Applications", and maintaining graduating sites as "topic.stackexchange.com".
I understand the backlash that Nothing to Install received, and I understand that some sites name's are just difficult, wordy, mildly ambiguous, and isn't the obvious solution to the problem. But let's flip this situation on it's head.
Ask Ubuntu has graduated and maintains it's own domain identity, that being askubuntu.com, which ubuntu.stackexchange.com redirects too. I'm well aware that this is in large part to the partnership between Stack Exchange and Canonical. But here in pure Stack Exchange land, there is a selection of sites that actually have and actively maintain an identity (Ask Different, Seasoned Advice,