Yeah, WordPress kicks lime. And surprisingly, it's very basic
it will be hard to come up with a totally different software, most of the ideas are taking that people love about a forum, but if another board uses that idea, people be like that's a rip of a another board, but if they made the idea better then that's still good.
I just don't understand the point of introducing a new forum software at this point if you have nothing substantial to add. This just seems like a "me too" effort.
It's not hard to release original software, to be honest. I'm working on my forums and they have tons of "original" features, or features that are similar but better in a way.