I'm a back-end Java/Scala dev too with a bit of experience in front-end tech (mostly for our internal data management web app) and honestly, I find front-end st

I'm a back-end Java/Scala dev too with a bit of experience in front-end tech (mostly for our internal data management web app) and honestly, I find front-end stuff awfully tedious and messy. It seems to me to be a spaghetti nightmare of brittle frameworks build on top of a teetering stack of already brittle frameworks and badly designed languages (looking at you JS), made worse by the almost hipster-esque obsession with jumping on new frameworks every 6 months that seem to offer nothing but a reinvention of the wheel. And don't get me started on Electron. From my own personal experience I think learning a bit of front-end stuff is valuable, but I'd stick to being primarily a middle/back-end developer. That's where all the interesting stuff happens anyway.