Frontend development has gotten more difficult in recent years as the tools we have available have gotten more powerful. Designers and product managers demand m

Frontend development has gotten more difficult in recent years as the tools we have available have gotten more powerful. Designers and product managers demand more as they see other companies push the limits of what is capable. There should be some corollary to Parkinson's law for this. I generally disagree that having some separation between client and service is undesirable. Everyone needs to be a generalist to some degree, but frontend specialists are important (speaking as a frontend specialist). There's just so much people need to know in order to be really productive and not make a mess with JavaScript, frontend frameworks, and DOM APIs that I'm skeptical that they'd be able to balance that with having a deep understanding and breadth of knowledge of backend systems.