This. It requires a far wider range of skills to be a really good front-end dev. UI, UX (which are 2 different skills in their own right), design, on top of cod

This. It requires a far wider range of skills to be a really good front-end dev. UI, UX (which are 2 different skills in their own right), design, on top of coding for a set of platforms that, taken together, behave as erratically as a drunken raccoon. I’d much rather do “complicated” back-end stuff that is glorified CS 101 than have to design and build a web interface that has to be intuitive to use, responsive, accessible, and works on IE11. The problem is that everyone notices the terrible UIs, but really good interfaces get out of your way so you don’t always notice how good they are. Hence a lack of recognition for good front-end devs.