DRE
Well-known member
I asked this question in a thread but it was ignored, so creating a new thread because I'm genuinely curious since I'm not that familiar with IPB.
I will still speculate that they aren't commenting on future features, so they aren't ripped off by other forum software developers.
That is solely my opinion.
Which happened around the release of XenForo.
You only need to look at IPB to see where some of those ideas came from.