I moved from backend to frontend years ago, when "hype-driven mess" was a much more accurate description of the field than it is today. There's simply many more

I moved from backend to frontend years ago, when "hype-driven mess" was a much more accurate description of the field than it is today. There's simply many more interesting challenges in web application front-ends than backends, especially if you need spacial design- things where canvas or webgl excel. Comparatively, there are far fewer backend positions available that are more than basic CRUD, even if it those CRUD operations are gussied up with a bunch of needless complexity juggling sources of truth across a bunch of different services. There's plenty of drudgery out there, and some interesting work in every field, but on the whole I personally have found frontend product development- product configurators for engineering / manufacturing, network visualization, visual design tool development, and data driven interfaces to be more fulfilling work. To each their own, but maybe you might want to be a little more aware of the people that you work with when you feel like saying something condescending. Edit: FWIW, you'd have to be blind to not see hype driven development in backend, especially in HN. "Rewrite it in rust" is the meme that continues to keep on giving.