Nodeprofile vs Profile

Greetings,

Guys, can you please take part in this discussion http://drupal.org/node/160546 and help understand the situation?
I've just subscribed to this group and am also interesting in user profiles destiny since I dropped core profile.module off and switched to nodeprofile.module.

I created this forum topic mostly to try to attract profile.module authors and Drupal authors and get some information from them. I also hope you guys will help to understand situation too.

Thanks again.