If I found a magic lamp, my first wish would be to never have to use magento again.
As soon as you want to go beyond the most basic stuff, everything breaks all the time. I’m currently trying to use the soap api to define product images for several stores. The api sometimes ignores the stoe parameter, I get the label from one language in another store, it changes the default image for no reason even when I set a specific storeView, and there is no option to set a store to use the default settings.
And every time I run into some part of magento I’ve never used before, I discover more broken things.
Magento is the Homer Car of e-commerce: lots of features, some useful and some useless, most broken, built with no direction or knowledge of what they were doing.