@davebrewer, some of this has been confusing to me, and continues to be confusing to me. I know we have the original White Paper and we have an ostensible "road map" but it seems mostly concerned with "what we're going to do next" and "features we'd like to add."

As of this writing, I have not seen any cohesive 5-year or 10-year plan with any sort of benchmarking. Of course, I can hear the peanut gallery murmuring about such things being "the evils of centralized structure."

Well, not really. They are the building blocks of a well thought out project. A constant series of "course corrections" aren't much good unless you have a carefully laid plan to follow.