I kinda wanted to agree with the author because of the number of times I've encountered and X-Yer that's neither X nor Y anymore.
But honestly even in those cases it's still usually somewhat informative despite the argument that it's misleading. It's still got some essence to it, and having a clue about the history is also often useful.
And it's frequently abbreviated XanYat or some such, or initialized the XY, which is just treated as any old name anyway and not a description. It's not cute or fun, and maybe less memorable (not sure about that, a single cute name is memorable but an ocean of them sounds confusing).
But honestly even in those cases it's still usually somewhat informative despite the argument that it's misleading. It's still got some essence to it, and having a clue about the history is also often useful.
And it's frequently abbreviated XanYat or some such, or initialized the XY, which is just treated as any old name anyway and not a description. It's not cute or fun, and maybe less memorable (not sure about that, a single cute name is memorable but an ocean of them sounds confusing).