toolbox, forms

It’s been years since the last inquiry here.
In the video demo of piklist back in 2013 both of these features were demonstrated and/or discussed and touted as part of the defining/best features piklist had to offer, and that they would be included fully open source.
5 years later and they are both hiding behind a beta program that seems inaccessible, and most recently (2-year old inquiry on here) mentioned thinking about charging for the features as well.

Also, I recall the presentation mentioning that the demonstrated piklist contact manager would be released as a demonstration application.

1 – I submitted to the beta but have heard no response
2 – I chose piklist in part because of the demo of those features which I would very much like to use
3 – Is the piklist project dead/dying/abandoned? seems to be very low activity on the forums, and there seem to be quite a few bugs unresolved in the past couple years even.
4 – Is piklist a safe bet anymore?

5 – where is the contact manager demo application?
Often the best way to learn something is to have a fully self-contained solution using it. The built-in ‘add-on’ demos help demonstrate individual features, but don’t demonstrate how to stand up a new plugin to use piklist.