Yeah, I think if Oxygen/Hydrogen can smooth out some of those issues it would make more sense and be more self-documenting. The current state of hodge podging work arounds requires institutional knowledge to maintain.

I’ve found though that often when clients say they need something that only a headless solution can provide, they actually don’t truly need it. And once the actual requirements are focused, a well built Shopify theme is plenty sufficient.

Maybe we are working at a different scale of companies though.

The main advantage of headless to me is the ability to get the speed of the site way up. But the nature of e-commerce is to add tons of pixels and other junk so it can defeat the advantages (and much harder to talk them out of adding pixels sadly…)