Towards the quote & blog post: Exactly.

Ever since I've used it, played with it and tried implementing all the theme features & modules it introduces. Try it out, you'll understood why things are done this way. Jetpack is great.

I have only 1 qualm with it. *Nudge* @George, we need a dev-friendly docs portal. They're currently all over the place. I had to scour blog posts to read up on everything.