In reply to Stubborn_Facts.

Thank you for your comment. We love receiving feedback from our users and are constantly iterating based on what we hear from users like you.

Jetpack was created with the philosophy of making it easier to bring features from WordPress.com to WordPress self-hosted sites. The description on the about Jetpack page (http://jetpack.me/about/) summarizes it as:

"Back in the day, there were great features available to WordPress.com users that were not available on self-hosted WordPress installs. Jetpack is a plugin that connects to WordPress.com and enables awesome features, powered by our cloud infrastructure."

Automattic began releasing small plugins for WordPress.com features but as the set of features to be released grew the need to have a unified point of development and release also grew and thus Jetpack was born. Now instead of installing more than 33 individual plugins you only need to install 1 to bring the power of the WordPress.com platform to your site. This unification also allows a lot of code to be shared across Jetpack instead of duplicated throughout what would be individual plugins.

We are working on improving error catching and profiling the code to make Jetpack even faster and more powerful for users. If installing Jetpack to utilize just one feature is providing a sub-optimal experience the Jetpack team would be happy to work with you on an individual basis. I hope we can work together. Drop us a line at http://jetpack.me/contact-support/ and one of our people will get back to you.

Lastly, Jetpack is an open project on Github. Everyone is free to contribute code patches, submit issues, talk about features, and even provide support for the future of new/existing features in Jetpack. I encourage you to join the conversation at https://github.com/automattic/jetpack. Together we can build an even better Jetpack and propel ourselves into the future!