Frontend isn't so much more difficult as it is more annoying. The difficult parts of backend development might take a lot of research, design, and even experime

Frontend isn't so much more difficult as it is more annoying. The difficult parts of backend development might take a lot of research, design, and even experimentation but it is usually roughly logical. Frontend is often a case of wrangling cats in the form of dozens of libraries, all with different design paradigms. Due to release velocity, these designs are often poorly thought out. You spend lots of time editing configurations, often poorly documented, to get everything to work together. Much of it is trial and error instead of logical deduction. My biggest challenge on the backend has been poorly documented systems with arbitrary design choices. This sounds a lot like the frontend but the difference is that on the backend, these quirks are relatively static. Once you figure the system out, you can build upon it. With the frontend you never know when some library is going to send a tidal wave through everything.