I've literally just finished writing a Wordpress plugin with ChatGPT.
It took me a few hours to build functionality that would normally need a paid plugin, and most of that time was spent working out the features. Woocommerce are charging a $50 subscription for basically the same thing.
It's fantastic to be able to have an idea for something and prototype and iterate it rapidly, without having to struggle with the implementation details.
Base WooCommerce is free, but a large amount of the functionality you need to actually build a working store is provided by additional plugins.
Most of these have a freemium model where the features you actually need are gated behind a monthly or yearly subscription. More than a few of these plugins and the monthly price can easily be more than something like Shopify, especially when factoring in hosting.
Each of these plugins also feel like they need to justify the cost, so often come larded with their own dashboards, UIs and other junk, whereas a simple script would often be better.
It took me a few hours to build functionality that would normally need a paid plugin, and most of that time was spent working out the features. Woocommerce are charging a $50 subscription for basically the same thing.
It's fantastic to be able to have an idea for something and prototype and iterate it rapidly, without having to struggle with the implementation details.