[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

If you did what you want to do,

bbPress would have no way to tell if

example.com/welcome-everyone

was a sub-forum or a topic.

In WP you need some way to determine if something is an archive view vs a post. ie. example.com/archives/monthly vs. example.com/monthly (which would be a post) It’s the same logic with bbpress.

However it might be possible someday to easily change /forum/ and /topic/ to something else. Removing them is impossible.

If you move bbpress to your webroot, you will get rid of /forums/ but it cannot co-exist with bbpress in that way as you cannot have two index files (without super-integration which is ill advised).

BackPress might solve this however someday.