>Often times when people get creative with names, the meaning dies with them
That's fine though. Anything you work on will inevitably develop a personality in your mind beyond what the name literally means, so what's the difference if the name is something like GAS (generic-acronym-service) or Fuel (GAS > gasoline > fuel).
A persuasive dev at my last job tried to insist on non-acronym names for every new service, and 5 years on, I can still remember every proper name, but none of the acronyms. That, to me, is sign of a good name.
That's fine though. Anything you work on will inevitably develop a personality in your mind beyond what the name literally means, so what's the difference if the name is something like GAS (generic-acronym-service) or Fuel (GAS > gasoline > fuel).
A persuasive dev at my last job tried to insist on non-acronym names for every new service, and 5 years on, I can still remember every proper name, but none of the acronyms. That, to me, is sign of a good name.