Identity Crisis?
We use BuddyPress for so many different use cases, I can not see any identity crisis. BuddyPress is so huge it has no general identity.

We use BuddyPress for Intranet solutions, learning systems, any kind of user generated content, e-commerce, marketplaces and membership sites. Even a german TV show use BuddyPress for their Community.

There is a huge world around BuddyPress in the Enterprise Scope. The smaller sites often not understand the benefit of BuddyPress.

WordPress educates user to build as lightweight as possible and use less plugins. BuddyPress is a huge horse. I think this blocks normal site owners to use BuddyPress. It is first interesting for bigger sites and company’s.

The smaller site owners mostly want the profile component but they think BuddyPress is to huge. I believe if BuddyPress components would be released separately, the Members component would be installed on nearly every blog. Maybe BuddyPress should be a installer bundle ;)