Shopify has blocked everyone except Plus stores from changing the checkout experience, so most of your suggestions are impossible. If I could swap back to three page checkout we wouldn’t be having this discussion, so A/B testing the checkout or trying different things with the checkout experience are not relevant suggestions.
We are going longer and longer, and the data is there. We’re paying double now for advertising conversions, and people are reaching checkout at the same rate as before. We’ve had to increase sales and email campaigns to try and make up for the lost revenue this month. However our main product we advertise is top of the funnel for us, so we’re losing significant repeat business down the line from this change! The ONLY thing that changed is Shopify unilaterally changed our checkout experience and is not letting anyone but stores that pay $2,000+ a month do anything about it.
I recognize the decision makers have no idea what it’s like to see your livelihood taking a huge hit for something completely out of your control, which is why we should have the control over our own stores!
Ive already explored all the suggestions you made that we could do anything about and gotten nowhere. I don’t see why Shopify won’t simply allow stores to choose what works best for their store.