>With a small team, there’s no dedicated resources on the project
Aren't bbPress and BuddyPress Automattic products now?

As a widely used Plugin which is Featured on the WordPress.org repository and backed by Automattic it's easy for visitors to assume that bbPress has more support than it does.

It would be great to see more support for bbPress and BuddyPress and progress on the postponed features.
These products are still a "standard" for these types
of functionality within WordPress with great potential and high visibility.