My honest take is that the frontend development stack focuses almost entirely on the developer experience (mostly oriented towards shiny things), and the user e

My honest take is that the frontend development stack focuses almost entirely on the developer experience (mostly oriented towards shiny things), and the user experience is only a secondary effect of that. That the developer experience also doesn't work is just an effect of the real-world, where people will end up using stuff outside of the small designated bucket of things that somebody attempts to keep compatible with each other.