That is true, but I feel like it's exposed to a broader audience in the front-end dev world: you can be a backend dev in whatever language you like and you've p

That is true, but I feel like it's exposed to a broader audience in the front-end dev world: you can be a backend dev in whatever language you like and you've probably worked on a project where a front end dev has introduced some ridiculously complex build system for css files. This is literally the comment I was given by a dev who was continuing someone else's work, about how the front end assets needed to be built: i) install npm ii) install grunt globally (npm install -g grunt) iii) install bower globally (npm install -g bower) iv) install bower packages (bower install) v) install npm packages (npm install) vi) run grunt