In reply to David Anderson.

That's just life as a component developer. If you make your living in an ecosystem created by someone else, you need to be quicker and better with new features. The more widely useful a feature might be, the more likely it'll eventually get incorporated as a standard part of the base product. You can't worry about your old features becoming a commodity; you worry about inventing new features that make your product worth the price.

For example, the most valuable feature (to me) of something like ManageWP (and I believe InfiniteWP) is the ability to back up, restore, and deploy clones (ie development vs production sites) across multiple sites from a single dashboard. That's worth paying for, and probably not something that's going to show up in JetPack anytime soon.