In a blog post by Serge Wroclawski, a long time OpenStreetMap contributor
and the founder of the OpenStreetMap US organization, outlines reasons why
he believes OSM is in trouble.
https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/
A choice quote.
"The first problem that I feel plagues OSM is that the OpenStreetMap
Foundation views the mission of the project to provide the world a
geographic database, but not geographic services."
See also this thread on the OSM-talk mailing list:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2018-February/080161.html
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation