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I assume this is about the hosted platform WordPress.com, not the software you and others can host and offer.
Yes, that is correct. This also excludes self-hosted sites using Jetpack, as well as sites hosted on WP VIP platform.
If you stay on WP.com, there is a new setting(per-site) under Settings > general for disallowing this.
For now … … endgame is integration in WP core and one needs forking to avoid it …