For many years, I've been hesitant to work with GoDaddy for two primary reasons:

1. They were not WordPress focused and were doing nothing to serve my agency clients.

2. Poor customer support. WP Engine's support techs are far more qualified and tech-savvy. They understand what you're asking for and can solve your problems very quickly. With Go Daddy support, it's like pulling teeth.

Recently, I was able to login to a new client's account on their managed hosting and what I found was still light years away from where WP Engine is today.

Now, that's not to say they aren't trying. And, that's also not to say their recent acquisitions and partnerships, like this one, aren't important and will help them in the WordPress world. But they are still comparable to WP Engine in their managed hosting environment.

This all-in-one service stack of WooCommerce + plugins is definitely interesting and I may test this mix with any new Ecommerce client that comes to me, but with a more limited budget. But, at WP Engine, I can either host my clients myself or use my partner agency status to earn some revenue on hosting fees. So while having this instant stack is interesting, there are other issues that remain unresolved for the agency referrer. Not sure if GoDaddy provides referral fees, but at WP Engine, I get a monthly residual on every site registered and not just a one time affiliate fee.

But, I appreciate you writing about this. It's good to know.