I received a response from Shopify, basically “we’re not changing this, and you can either use our meta fields or hardcode your data”, we used blocks because we had a complex solution, and both of these options are either too basic or too time-consuming. Thanks Shopify.
Chrissy here with the Plus Support Specialist Team, thanks for connecting with us today.> > I understand you’re looking for more information on the section blocks and the limit of 16 for Online Store 2.0. Thanks for the information and context on why this change is important to your business and workflow.> I’ve looped in our front end developers to gain more insight for you regarding your inquiry. In terms of increasing this limit, that is not a feature available at this time and cannot be changed. I advised our team of the situation of the ingredients listed in the sections, and a work around they recommend is using metafields to customize the product as there is no limit this way.> > Alternatively, you can hardcode all of their block data into sections or snippets and then bring them in that way— keep in mind that you’ll just need to go into the theme files whenever you want to make changes instead of using the theme editor.> > Using metafields is our front end developers most recommended workaround in this case.> > I’ve gone ahead and made note of your feedback and will forward this to our developers to consider adding that functionality in a future update. Our priority is making sure Shopify is as user-friendly as possible and we’re always looking for better ways to improve the systems, we appreciate your input.> > This should get you on the right track for now. Feel free to reply to this email if you have further questions and we will be happy to help.