A lot has changed in 2 years. There have been a lot of updates with a major architectural ones just a few days ago. As well as 5 star ratings from developers wh

A lot has changed in 2 years. There have been a lot of updates with a major architectural ones just a few days ago. As well as 5 star ratings from developers who have seen the project grow. I tried opencart a while back and I just didn't get it. There's theme templates in multiple folders, it's over kill for a store with just 4 or 5 products, and its design and layout was too set in stone. I never found a theme I liked. I wanted something that I could install, strip down to the core, and build my really simple, really minimal store from. Open cart wasn't flexible or minimal in that sense. The user has to click, click, click, to get anywhere. It felt like all the products where categorized and tucked away and the user has to find them. Maybe it's possible to change via heavy template modification but I haven't seen any template actually do that. It's easier for me to start with something minimal like wp e-commerce and build it up with modules, than to start with something overly templated and featureful and try to tear it down to simplicity.