We had one frontend engineer in the 80s/90s doing TP and Delphi frontends, and he was also doing some backend work because frontend work was very easy and fast.

We had one frontend engineer in the 80s/90s doing TP and Delphi frontends, and he was also doing some backend work because frontend work was very easy and fast. We now have 10 frontend devs and I don’t find it an improvement. It looks somewhat better sometimes, but it’s slower, more inconsistent (you can jump from 1 of the 100s of applications we did in Delphi to a random other and immediately understand it all if you use Windows) and incredibly costly compared.