It's not easier, just a very different environment to work with, it all depends on the technology choice to be honest. I've worked for some larger-ish tech com

It's not easier, just a very different environment to work with, it all depends on the technology choice to be honest. I've worked for some larger-ish tech companies the past 6 years and the choice for backend technologies is simply more mature than the hodge-podge of changes in the frontend, there has been some consolidation on backend frameworks/technologies/patterns over the past decade that has helped me a lot. I think you can say that backend engineering with some technologies is much more mature than the current environment on the web frontend. Not easier, just that you don't have to care about swapping major parts of your build infrastructure every 3 years anymore.