So not having any info prior to this post about any of this stuff, would it be fair to summarize this in saying that the non-political/apolitical sections of the site want to split away from the rest, predicated on the notion that the political side will inevitably bring down attacks (ddos, hack stuff etc) that at the moment impact everyone here?

In principle I dont have a problem with it, I dont see how it detracts from here or p.w in any way to have this separation, assuming it doesnt mess with getting code updates done in a timely way, resilience etc. If my summary of the reasoning is correct, then I also think it will fail in its stated goals in avoiding attack purely by changing names, since the the sort of people attacking will not care what the name is, and will still want to be a nuisance out of sheer spite. The historical association with here and p.w means that people will hate communities.win wherever they go, and whatever they rename to.

With that said, I hope I'm wrong about that last part.