I don't think "number of plugins" is a good comparison metric here.
The Shopify app store is regulated + tested by Shopify before getting the approval to go live.
WordPress plugins are the wild west, many of them incompatible with each other.
The Shopify app store is regulated + tested by Shopify before getting the approval to go live.
WordPress plugins are the wild west, many of them incompatible with each other.
Number of plugins isn't the greatest metric but it's a good leading indicator. It's kinda hard to estimate how many merchants and customers and volume of transactions have been processed when they aren't being tracked by a central entity ;)