Idea
This pass focused on section schema handling, because any renderer that ignores merchant-configurable sections is mostly a toy.
Status
The project got more useful and less glamorous. We can now describe several important failures much more precisely.
Problems Faced
- The more real the renderer gets, the more damaging the wrong abstractions become.
- AI-generated refactors kept trying to tidy things before the model was stable.
Techniques That Helped
- Favour explicit data flow over clever generic wrappers.
- Keep a fixture theme specifically for breaking the parser.
Lessons Learned
Some weeks progress looks like a shorter list of lies.