I agree some will evolve into more, but lots of them won't. That's why shopify, WordPress and others exist - most commercial websites are just online business cards or small shops. Designers and devs are hired to work on them all the time.

If you’re hiring a dev to work on your Shopify site, it’s most likely because you want to do something non-standard. By the time the dev gets done with it, it will be a special unique snowflake.

If your site has users, it will evolve. I’ve seen users take what was a simple trucking job posting form and repurpose an unused “trailer type” field to track the status of the job req.

Every single app that starts out as a low code/no code solution given enough time and users will evolve beyond that low code solution. They may keep using it, but they’ll move beyond being able to maintain it exclusively through a low code interface.

And most software engineering principles is for dealing how to deal with this evolution.

- Architecture (making it easy to adjust part of the codebase and understanding it)

- Testing (making sure the current version works and future version won't break it)

- Requirements (describing the current version and the planned changes)

- ...

If a project was just a clone, I'd sure people would just buy the existing version and be done with it. And sometimes they do, then a unique requirement comes and the whole process comes back into play.

If your website is so basic that you can just take a template and put your specific details into it, what exactly do you need an LLM for?