Overall, I am really enjoying the modest stream of high quality supplements and settings we are seeing. It's a good time to be a BRP player. However, my feeling (admittedly as an isolated gamer here in Japan) is that BRP is not gaining any real traction. There's no growth in the RPG marketplace and increasing fragmentation. Over the last 3 years we have seen D&D fragment enormously into 4e, 3.x holdouts, Pathfinder and the retro-clone players, and we have seen BRP fragment into Chaosium's and Mongoose's adherents, as well as OGL options like OpenQuest. It's a confusing time, and I think the dust will not settle into a pattern with BRP as a major component. It's just one option among many, and that's OK for me. BRP has dedicated and talented writers and fans, and is not going anywhere for a long, long time.
Perversely, the chronically resource poor Chaosium seems to be a good haven for the game. Their high standards and genuine cred make up for a lot, and even if they were given a million bucks to market BRP I don't think it would change the profile of today's RPG market.