Hey, Jeff. Happy Holidays!

With a bit of time having passed since the debacle that the WordPress Helpers sadly turned out to be having been resolved, I wanted to weigh in here on the two main points you mention above. Hope that's OK.

First, I absolutely concur that WordPress' continuing growth absolutely depends on Jetpack. Of course, it's no secret that I've always felt that way; after all I said it in January, in one of the first posts at The WordPress Helpers (http://wordpress.answerguy.com/wordpress-jetpack-market-share-big-brother/2015/01/29).

Second, unless we redefine what market share means, that 50% thing isn't going to happen. And that makes me sad.

Let me be clear that I've not soured on WordPress, and there's nothing in that statement even remotely related to the way things went with TWPH. I always believed continued growth of the sort that MaTT has been calling his goals for a while now to be unrealistic.

OTOH, if the REST API thing works (I'm skeptical) and that redefinition thing happens, maybe WP can keep expanding. We'll see ...