Why the JP is overpowered

TL;DR Many other strong items have counterplay that balances them out, this counterplay for JPs is not there in a usable way most of the time as it depends on your opponent to be used, rather than depending on you to counter play by yourself - which balances out the other strong items, but not JPs. No counterplay + very strong = overpowered and no fun for everyone on the map but the user. OP stall + closed maps = boring games and frankly wasted time while playing. Stall + Ranked = serious problem affecting elo when ranked is meant to be skill based not stalling/luck based.

Still TL;DR Insufficient counter play and makes matches no fun for everyone else, especially so in ranked on closed maps.

So why nerf it anyway?

Nothing should be done

Brawl has OP items too, why take the JP out in smash?

But I like JetPacks

What's such a problem about matches timing out?

a lot

Most of us like JetPacks / Don't care about not getting kills on JPers

Then if you say it is OP and nerf it and we say it isn't OP and don't nerf it then let's compromise in the middle

Is it really such a huge issue with matches taking longer and timing out?

Jetpacks are an integral part of the game so should stay

Okay, fine, let's do something but what?

The pseudo lives are too numerous on closed maps

The JP players might as well be camping for all impact they have on good players

The JP makes people feel safe and they get hooked to this feeling and don't want to fight when they're not safe

The JP makes people rely on luck to live/win so they can't improve

The JP stops people using other items so kills the item variety

Insufficient counter play

Stalls game

Make amazing off terrain plays / vertical plays (such as on Oculus)

Lets people be fearless for a while so makes the game more fun for them

Fills a niche of major recovery item

You can 'yolo' and risk much more while using it, which can actually lead to way more interesting gameplay

Majorish edit 18/3/2014 : added a bit more explanation in places, tl'dr's for the opening paragraph and more data to the good/bad list above the table





Edit added to include final suggestion, thread and suggestion by SenorWeirdo





Planned edit in future: comments about JPs and bug abuse making them more of an issue than ever.