Setting up Magento 2 requires a developer, there's no way around that as you need to do a lot of setup using the cli. WooCommerce on the other hand is all plug

Setting up Magento 2 requires a developer, there's no way around that as you need to do a lot of setup using the cli. WooCommerce on the other hand is all plug and play and easy enough for a lot of shop owners to self-manage. Magento's admin interface is superior and if your catalog is in the order of 100s of thousands of skus, nothing else is going to cut it. But as you said it needs a lot more server to run effectively.