It's a topic that people wish to discuss (there's no reason for this to be closed). It's well within a persons right to speculate/discuss about the future of vbulletin and the direction it will take. With that said, I still believe myself it will remain the no1 forum script and moving onto free or other paid alternatives will merely be a downgrade.
My 2 sites are merely hobby based so whatever direction vbulletin goes won't concern me in the slightest. And, if vb4.0 isn't what I expect or need I'll remain using 3.8.
Regarding Floris thread (on the webmaster forum) clearly it showed there were issues and we can only guess the same with the rest of the teams departure (as I suspected).
Hi there Lasto.