I'm close to migrate a very important forum from vBulltin into bbPress (and probably some areas with BuddyPress), and just hope this project gets a bit more attention inside the WordPress ecosystem.

I also get the idea that someone (probably) in charge, seems to don’t care much about expanding WordPress beyond the traditional "blogging" mold they seem to be comfortable in.

(although I know that BuddyPress and even WordPress are being given some major new features in the last few weeks, but the most important part where communities need to join around an internet forum is really missing some bits of attention.)

But, I'm with you guys: crossing fingers hopping things will get faster as soon as possible.