Re: bbpress vs the others
If the software you install today works for you, why upgrade it to the plugin version? It’s not even an “upgrade” so much as it will be installing completely different software. It would be like switching from bbPress to WP Forum or some other forum plugin for WordPress. Would you expect your bbPress plugins to work with any other WordPress forum plugin? I don’t think so, and I don’t think you should expect any existing plugins for bbPress to work (or even be necessary, for that matter, when running the WordPress plugin.)
