Wish you the best with the purchase of BB. As you said, BB has a nice core which users love. This keeps us for years and years here at BB.
From my work a as project manager, I believe in transparency and "single source of truth". Keep us in the loop, what is planned. With an open backlog or something like that.
Make the discussion open for the BB user here in the forum, not on a chat like Discord. You can set up a poll, let it run for two weeks and everyone here can vote.
Good luck with the improvement of BB, hopefully everyone will benefit from it.