Wonderful post and evermore reason for WordPress core to stop over-emphasizing (read: aggressively promoting) Jetpack and other shoddy applications being hawked by Automattic which are nothing more than an investor-backed abuse of their position to further their corporate WordPress.com profits. Core commits should be focused on open-source benefits and what is "best for the community" and not jerry-rigged hacks that are designed solely for WordPress.com functionality (a proprietary site owned by Automattic).

https://www.littlebizzy.com/blog/matt-mullenweg-attack

TL;DR: time to kill XML-RPC, and Mullenweg needs an attitude check.