" I'm trying to understand what salient issue he has violated by offering a high-priced, slapped-together product."

It seems to me that the community (rightly or wrongly, but I'm leaning towards rightly if my opinion matters) places higher standards on witnesses or aspiring witnesses than "normal" community members.

Jerry has really offended this sensibility since there seems to be an unwritten rule that witnesses must also be rather technical, and as a fairly new witness, he "dumbly" made a service much crappier than one he had already posted my "ghostwritten" work on, thus making it difficult optics for him to deny knowing about it or claim he forgot.

Further, this is not his first time making a mistake in this or other crypto communities, as he will freely admit.

I think those trying to run him off the platform are being short-sighted and do not appreciate the possible diversity Jerry could bring as a marketing-only witness that pledged away almost all of his block rewards. I am willing to apply different standards to different witnesses; it only makes sense to judge a witness on their strengths and Jerry's isn't tech.

He'd give back more than this stupid account service idea ever could have made, even if it was a wildly successful malicious scam as some of his detractors seem to think it was intended to be, before his first month of witnessing was done in block rewards alone.