New features (Marketing, Analytics, wc-admin) incredibly slow

Hi,

I’m a web developer. I manage over 20 sites and I have a few clients who use WooCommerce as their ecommerce platform.

New features were added in WooCommerce versions 4.1-4.2 and they are incredibly slow to load on shared hosting servers.

I’m talking about these features:
– Marketing tab
– Analytics
– WC Dashboard
– WC admin bar(?)

Please add options to disable some or all these new and unneccesary features. Most of my clients don’t need or use these features and they only complicate and slow down the WordPress admin dashboard.
Also, more features = more things that can break or cause security issues.

What is Inbox anyway? Why is WooCommerce sending me messages or congratulating me about a sale? Why are you sending marketing messages through WooCommerce? I understand the freemium model and some occasional banners to upgrade to pro but come on.

99% of the time my clients use the Orders and Products tabs. That’s it.
WooCommerce is supposed to be lean and light.
Speed, reliability and customizability are the key reasons why I recommended WooCommerce to my clients in the first place.

If Automattic wants more revenue try creating useful paid addons like a better stock manager or some marketing addons. Don’t add bloat and up-sells to the WooCommerce core!

I sincerely hope you realize how much web developers and agencies can influence which platform our clients use. I have moved my customers away from certain plugins before and helped them make better decisions regarding their online presence.

Right now I have opted to use the Disable Woocommerce Bloat plugin to disable these unnessecary features but I hope WooCommerce adds an option to disable these unneccesary features natively.

I read your blog post about the version 4.1 features and it sounded like you just wanted to up-sell some extensions. Fine. Some store owners might have some use for these extensions but give developers and webmaster a way to disable these.