Because development jobs pays too damn well, and are too easy to get. Someone famous once said something along the lines of "any idiot can make a thing more com

Because development jobs pays too damn well, and are too easy to get. Someone famous once said something along the lines of "any idiot can make a thing more complicated, more complex, but it takes the stroke of genius to go in the opposite direction" Basically, backend dev is so complicated because it's done by fools. When it's not done by fools, it's either not complex or has some very difficult requirements, perhaps sometimes both. Edit to add, I say this as a foolish backend Dev myself, no offence meant to my own kin, of course!