We decided it was cleaner flow for the user experience to leave the Express Checkout buttons out entirely - but if needing Apple Pay or Google Pay is needed in the future, we'll need to take the code back out again. The real problem is that OR after ...

Thanks SO much for this!  I just implemented this in our store (using Canopy theme) - within the Header section of the theme.liquid and it removed the Express Checkout buttons (both PayPal & Apple Pay) from our Checkout page! Oddly enough, now the op...