It could help me with making my recipe editor more powerful (the types of ingredients are currently quite limited and copied to server results are suboptimal as well).
Adding integration with more plug-ins will be easier once more plug-ins start using ItemBridge. Even though little plug-ins support it at the moment, this might change in the future, and joining early could contribute a bit to this.
Custom Items 9.14 will have partial ItemBridge support: it will register its items to ItemBridge, but it won't be able to use ItemBridge items that are registered by other plug-ins in its custom recipes.
The plug-in ItemBridge (see https://polymart.org/resource/item-bridge.4 ) seems interesting because: