In reply to Peter Knight (@peterrknight).

Hi Peter, I jump into this and start from bottom: the plugin you mention was the first I tested: a total disaster! The result was very simple: I simply got NOTHING around images. It's just a joke and nobody replies out there in support. This plugin, like many others is like the ruins of Pompei. Frozen in the past.

I completely respect your position but most of the arguments I found here and there simply don't work. As I said, the logic of "features most people use" simply doesn't work here. I don't want to list here all WP features most people don't use. It'll be too long. The "too many settings" argument doesn't work either. This was hidden in advanced options and most users never ever clicked on that (that's probably why they didn't use it by the way...).

Now remains the infamous argument "plugin territory" that I found here and there by many WP soldiers. I have no problem with that. The real problem here is rather hidden.

Because I now clearly understand that "plugin territory" translates in "Jetpack territory" and this is something I simply can't accept. The other plugin mentioned everywhere (Advanced Image Styles) is developed by a WP developer working for Automattic and not only the plugin doesn't work correctly but there is no support either. It clearly appears that this is just a beta playground for Jetpack wonderful guys and happiness engineers that are just testing waters to see what the next cooool module will be.

Let me be clear here and this is my personal point of view of course:
Image borders and margins have been removed with the sole purpose to move them into Jetpack's family of cool and awesome modules. As many others modules of this package, they could have been part of core WP but it is far more interesting commercially to serve them through your wp.com account.

I think the remaining is just a discussion to keep this topic alive and keep focus away from the real issue.