The scope of back-end development has grown considerably. In fact, it's precisely "one level of indirection" bigger: "commit is the new save", "push is the new commit", and "repo is the new module". Plus, "full-stack development" now includes containers and orchestration! Which is, of course, insane: distributed systems are, in general, not well understood. Expecting people to understand front-end, back-end, and then just tacking on an academically challenging area is beyond foolish.

I strongly believe that we're now at the limit of human cognitive ability (as evidenced by the tight, and tightening, employment market) and we human programmers are painting ourselves into a complexity corner and we will weep when our employers happily hire the only minds capable of dealing with mechanical complexity, artificial ones.