BuddyPress can be described as developer-focused. The BP volunteer devs work on things that interest them – understandable. Contributors burn-out quickly because of the nature of the BP dev process. BuddyBoss is a business. BuddyBoss is user-focused and very successfully so. Their decision to fork BuddyPress and create their Platform was embraced by developers and users alike. Take a look at their git repo pull-requests – very active. Simply put – BuddyPress is suffering from an attitude problem at the leadership level. Mathieu continues to do great work as a developer. But strategically, BP is floundering.