I think it's less of front-end having an identity crisis and more that every major programming language is trying to do the job of every other one, as opposed t

I think it's less of front-end having an identity crisis and more that every major programming language is trying to do the job of every other one, as opposed to languages being specialized for certain tasks, Javascript and it's variants especially. But everyone's now got their preferred language and they won't budge. So it's another thing you have to learn in order to do the job, even if you don't actively use it.