Gotcha. That would require creating (or perhaps borrowing from another theme) all the form elements (text boxes, submit buttons, etc.) for those page templates, right?

Indeed an interesting issue. I’m guessing that the best way would be to create custom page templates for all of them and add/remove the sidebar/header/layout elements that you need for those pages (they are still standard WP pages, so you can assign different page templates to them). Of course, this means manual work in the source code of those templates, but gives you the most control.

Maybe a little. Basically, I just think that if you’re a small business that needs a store *right now* then it’s way easier to set that up with Shopify than with anything else.

Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, the cheapest option with Shopify is limited, but the sole fact that it’s there opens up a lot of possibilities to people – who wouldn’t have otherwise started selling anything due to the difficult setups of the free alternative tools. Re Woo pricing, I probably agree with you that it’s a more attractive model overall when I look at it today.