Given that a lot of people have the title “front end web developer” of course there’s going to be backlash. Most people aren’t unbiased enough to hate on the th

Given that a lot of people have the title “front end web developer” of course there’s going to be backlash. Most people aren’t unbiased enough to hate on the thing they’ve spent years mastering. Frankly front end web development is a huge mess if you look at it from an unbiased perspective. HTML wasn’t designed for multimedia, JavaScript was designed in a week. Now the entire modern industry of web development are a series of endless hacks built on top of the old framework. React, typescript, css are all skin grafts on top of technology that was designed for something else. Of course the end result is going to be inefficient. The entire web is new tech patching up old tech. It’s like the 737 max, all of modern web development is an MCAS on top of html. It’s not even a single thing. It’s like hundreds and hundreds of MCAS’s with some MCAS’s built to patch up other MCAS’s. The fix of course is to start from scratch. Given all of our knowledge of Modern web GUIs design a singular native api that can achieve what we need with significantly less complexity and better performance. Of course some front end engineer with 10 years of experience isn’t going to openly embrace a new api that is not only better but can possibly mastered in a month by any average dev. If you’re primarily a front end developer I have to say that I cannot trust your opinion. I do not believe any person has the impartialness to deride the very thing that defines their career and expertise. Literally front end developers are just experts at navigating a universe of patches and hacks and no such dev wants to admit it. I’m interested in peoples opinions though, it’s just in a thread like this it’s impossible to get an unbiased opinion.