Why Is Shopify so confusing for developers?

Working on the Shopify integration for InvenTrac and I have to rant a little. Why is everything so confusing? There’s Shopify Admin, Partner Dashboard, Dev Dashboard, Apps, and then a bunch of different Shopify URLs and subdomains. Half the time I know exactly what I need to change, I just can’t remember where the hell I changed it last time.

API settings? One place. App settings? Somewhere else. Store settings? Different place. App review? Go find another dashboard. Somehow they all look like they’re part of Shopify, but they don’t really feel connected. Maybe if you’ve been developing Shopify apps for years this all makes perfect sense, but coming into it fresh, the whole experience is just confusing. I spent way too much time today clicking around trying to find a setting that I know I’ve seen before.

The funny thing is, building the actual integration might be easier than figuring out where Shopify put everything.