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I wonder how this relates to Reddit. Both sites (SO and Reddit) have unique, community driven and created sections.

Would a site like Reddit benefit from turning some of these sections into top-level domains? I know that they are having financial issues right now, and could this be a possible step to move away from their problems into something that would be profitable?

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I think the communities are fundamentally different. On Reddit, you think of yourself as a Redditor. You may only go to certain subreddits, but it's all supposed to be a part of something large. For SO, one of the main points was to give quality search engine results. You search for some problem you have and SO shows up instead of experts-exchange! ServerFault and other spinoffs are supposed to stand on their own in a way that I think Reddits are not.

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