This is so true. Anyone trying to learn frontend as a newbie today has an unreasonably hard task at hands. So much unwarranted complexity.

I feel like the backend is just an inherently simpler problem to solve, request in, response out. Largely stateless. Of course there are harder things to do like stateful 2-way connections, but the solutions are mostly concentrated on a couple of technologies. Like yeah we have stuff like graphql, but at the end of the day the principle is the same.