I can do things less expensive on something like godaddy to accomplish my purposes, but your talking on $25 a month difference, so even if I build 10 websites that is only $250 a month, which is nothing in business terms. My site needs are very basic at this time (I already have a custom expensive site for my business, and these sites will have far fewer requirements).
So I chose Shopify both because I own stock and because I want the ease of use and easy integration of any component I may want to plug in, even for simple sites. Also I want to learn how to do this for real.
Tinker