"When you get to the client interactions, of course, you have amazing heterogeneity." The heterogeneity of client apps is very superfical. One layer underneath

"When you get to the client interactions, of course, you have amazing heterogeneity." The heterogeneity of client apps is very superfical. One layer underneath the fancy design and arguably unnecessary custom imteractions, everything start looking very much the same as the article argues is the case for backend. Funny enough, not too long ago people said you don't need frontend devs, because of tools like gwt. And long before Firebase people were already claiming you don't need to write backend code because of uml. If you take enough steps back everything will start looking the same and generic. But dependant on the problem your are solving, you should take a closer look at certain aspects, instead of blindly following "best practices" of the current week, month or year.