In reply to mark k..

Come on Mark, even me, a dev, I don't use git nor svn on live sites and you want an average user to be able to set that up ?

Anyway, this issue has been mitigated with the new Advanced page which shows both the stats and the older versions.

As for the DB backup, it's true that it should be more common practise but we are not there yet.

I think, the best way to mitigate all of this and more is to switch away from traditional hosting to VPS and Cloud hosting in order to have access to Full Server Backups and Snapshots but we are not there yet too.

My initial comment up there was more geared towards the average end user and owner of a website. Now, if you are a business whose survival or reputation heavily depends on your website, then of course, it's your fault for not learning or hiring someone who knows and practises failsafe updates and processes.

Finally, I wanted to stress out that the bugs and incompatibilty issues are not entirely WooCommerce's fault since any dev developing add-ons for it should, from time to time, visit their dev blog or their Github account to stay on top of things and upcoming developements. And in this particular case, WC extended the beta period and even changed its versioning policy to stress out the important evolution of the software.