In reply to Jesse Friedman.
Jesse, all the responses I’m seeing from Automattic/JetPack have followed the same pattern for a month – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-over-writing-plugin-search-results/ – and aren’t taking on board what users and developers are saying (and what’s focussed upon in the article, above). This starts an arms race, and the users will be the victims.

If Jetpack takes finds a loophole in the rules (and let’s take it that it is a loophole, rather than a direct violation) to do this, then it’s declaring open season for developers to plaster the dashboard with many more “helpful indications of features you possibly didn’t know about”. Those have always existed. But Jetpack, by doing this so prominently and by pushing other search results out of the view port, is failing to remember that “great power brings great responsibility”. Just because you *can*, doesn’t mean you *should*.