To be slightly more charitable, front end attracts self-taught devs because the browser is the default dev environment on Windows and on phones/tablets and it’s

To be slightly more charitable, front end attracts self-taught devs because the browser is the default dev environment on Windows and on phones/tablets and it’s far more accessible a new players than any other environment. It’s more fun to write code and make stuff up than to find and evaluate libraries (especially when said libraries are written by self-taught devs), so people tend to reinvent rather than research.