In reply to Felix Krusch.

It will definitely clean up Wordpress admin interface, which is hosted and owned by users. Idea of having single link on plugin/theme author's profile page on .org is similar to Instagram structure. Current state of theme and plugins looks like Facebook with lots of external links and banners to pro version and affiliate links.

Having single link on profile will give authors more chance to provide lite version with best features and make users happy. So big portion of those happy users looking for more will be interested in pro version and know where to find it. They will go to authors website with intent to buy pro version. Not because they fed up with ads, or tricked with lots of promotion. But because of good results that they got with lite version.

Authors on their own website can sell pro version, promote any plugin or affiliate offer.

I don't think that quality of themes because of this will fall.