In reply to mac2net.

@mac2net ~ nope, sorry if you read it that way, there's no hostility at all. Just trying to give my perspective as someone who is not invested in the status quo.

I think that Jetpack was simply developed as a spoiler app, so that Automattic could control more of the WordPress real estate out there. Oh, and so that they can use it to push freemium offers, of course.

(sounds of deck-chairs being rearranged in the background)

WordPress seems to have lost its way and the devs seem to be content with plodding along, fixing bugs and not pushing the envelope any further. That really shouldn't be a surprise as its very hard to maintain that momentum when you have to scale an organization.

But I do find it odd and wonder if there are some constraining influences here that we're not seeing here ~ like the long, cold, dead fingers of the money men?

I always thought Matt was up to it and more than able to exert the necessary pressure to evolve, adapt and reinvent WordPress.

Apparently not.

Well, at least, not yet.