Shopify's developer focus is nothing but marketing spin
It seems like their latest attempt to cater to developers since first Shopify+, and later Hydrogen, failed to pick up traction. While I welcome the focus on developers and good APIs, it is still striking how much this once again seems to be unsubstantiated in a truly new product.
Instead, they re-packeted their old product into yet another bad developer experience:
- their APIs are inconsistent and cause headache to work with
- whenever you want to build in any customizations, you end up hacking another Frankenstein together
- docs are super thin when you start drilling a bit into the details multi-currency is gone (have managed 8 shops because of 8 different currencies)
- support is expensive and getting small roadmap prioritization, even for large projects, is almost impossible
The list goes on...
Sorry for the rant, but getting frustrated with their way of doing marketing instead of product innovation.