Tentpoles and table stakes?

In the planning for v5.4.0 Jeremy writes

  1. A secondary goal is to add the groundwork for tentpole new features that have become table stakes amongst our competitors

[…after having looked up the meaning of both tentpole and table stakes] I am wondering, what would such features be? Actually, what competitors are we even talking about?

I guess these are matters of opinion, so what are yours :slight_smile: