In reply to Jesse Friedman.

This is not a user problem, it's a marketing problem.

By "curated" you must mean hosts that have pre-installed Jetpack so you haven't actually had an opportunity to market Jetpack to those users because they already had it without knowing it so they obviously don't fully understand what Jetpack can do.

The goal with this is clearly to market Jetpack's features and attempt to deter users from installing competing plugins.

It's gross.

If this is the playing field WordPress will be played on going forward then other plugin developers will have no choice but to follow suit. Even if we don't like it.