In reply to Florin Muresan.

WordPress.com is presented as a platform. It’s a website builder platform which you get to use in a freemium system: some features are free, some are paid.

It was. That no longer seems to be the case.

If 3rd party integrations is a paid feature, then it’s a paid feature of a platform, not of a hosting service.

It appears to be a totally different platform altogether.