Definitely! On the other hand... maybe not, for more conservative industries? You don't need a full-blown frontend team to be very productive. A great frontend

Definitely! On the other hand... maybe not, for more conservative industries? You don't need a full-blown frontend team to be very productive. A great frontend engineer (easy to find) and a cookie-cutter backend code-monkey (also easy to find) working together and getting paid 1x each are probably as productive as a great backend engineer you're thinking of paying 2x. But the thing is that the 2x will bring some extra experience, less bugs... but that's not what companies are after. So yep you have a point.