In reply to Carl Hancock.

Hi Carl - Interesting that you appear to be pointing the finger at 3rd party developers for the epic WC 3.0.0 release breaking live stores -
WC 3.0.1 - out 2 days after 3.0 released - 43 Bug Fixes

I see even plugins that where updated for WC 3.0 before WC 3.0.0 release are having to push upgrades with Patches - eg. WooCommerce Subscriptions http://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-subscriptions/changelog.txt - 2 releases with 9 bug fixes the day after release and store owners still losing all subscriptions products https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriptions-not-working-after-update-3-0/#post-9003680

WooCommerce was notorious for breaking tens of thousands of stores with each major version upgrade when WooThemes owned it - had hoped under the ownership of Automattic that would change - but no.

What I've always argued is that WooCommerce should as far as possible never do this - you are actually playing with peoples livelihoods here - these are not blogs, they are live stores owned by businesses. But still they continue to do so -

I wonder if Automattic has thought about the possibility of WC store owners filing a class action for loss of income due to something like the release of WC 3.0.0 that breaks every dependent plugin and theme?

Lets see - 100,000 store owners (not developers - the actual business owners) lose US$1,000 in sales due to 3.0.0 breaking their store - Class action = US$100 million - scary