Let’s not just pick on frontend. Has anyone seen what it takes to run something on AWS? Devops is nearing similar levels of insanity, and often for applications that won’t even have 50 users (seriously, all these companies that advertise for AWS experience for a tool that is going to be fucking internal with less than 50 users).
It all builds up in me to be honest. You get the frontend complicated, then the deploy/infra gets complicated for the needless cloud dependency, and then the backend people don’t want to get left out of the party so they manage to rewrite their shitty php app in Go.
It’s like a shitty third world country. Not only do the roads suck, but there’s no water or electricity half the time, and you need to bribe everyone to get something. Instead of it becoming a wasteland, the population somehow still increases (more people actually entering tech). Now you really can’t change anything because there’s too many people.
How the wicked live.