One difference is that new kinds of software exist every day and old ones become obsolete. Shopify is only suitable for a fraction of e-commerce sites, and bef

One difference is that new kinds of software exist every day and old ones become obsolete. Shopify is only suitable for a fraction of e-commerce sites, and before Shopify there was oscommerce, volusion, yahoo stores, magento, and dozens of other web 1.0 e-commerce platforms. If you are starting an e-commerce business and have $30 per month, Shopify is a great idea, but if you have a larger budget its limitations start to become impactful. Skills will definitely become obsolete, but code moves quickly and allows new ideas to become realized. What the author erroneously thinks of as a stable business model (e-commerce) is not, and there will be lots of people trying to improve upon it in ways that existing platform abstractions are insufficient for.