Lets be real, this is not "to help people". It is advertisement.
I am not happy to have bluespice adds on extensions I maintain. And not happy to have them on other extensions either, unless we have similarly prominent adds for Professional.Wiki there. Though I do not think this would be appropriate at all on MediaWiki.org.
Talk about alternative solutions is nice, but I'd like to see the current stuff removed immediately. Maybe something can then be put back once there is a more reasonable solution.