Armchair psychology warning! Try doing something in Vue, Flutter, or SvelteKit or something... it will probably be significantly easier than what you expect!

Armchair psychology warning! Try doing something in Vue, Flutter, or SvelteKit or something... it will probably be significantly easier than what you expect! The hardness comes from the fact that you're basically writing bookkeeping two way state sync code, and if you don't have a reactive framework you're doing it by hand. Plus, there are so many GUI libraries, and the easy ones are big. I suspect GUI haters choose low level stuff, then complain about how hard it is. Or, they might use language without that great of GUI bindings. They might also start out with a specific vision of how it should work, whereas people who find GUIs easy are picking a big popular framework and not really thinking of any ideas outside it's language. I generally don't even start thinking about architecture or code until after I've already chosen my tools, I want to do designs that fit the tools I'm using, not design something and than choose a language specifically for the design. Plus, you cannot build a nice GUI on top of a UNIXY backend without lots of work. For some reason I don't understand, programmers seem to think of computers as devices that take input and produce an output, and build stuff that looks like a compiler tool chain. With GUI, you're not computing an output, you're updating a state based on user input. You generally never want to be in a place where you do things in a sequence, and can't edit previous steps without starting all over. You also can't always have a logical model for what to include. Usually GUIs are not general purpose like raw code is. You're not using a blank canvas to build another blank canvas, which is what most devs seem to like, you're building a curated workflow. You might have "Edit this transaction" buttons and "Export report for the month" buttons. If you're used to thinking in logical layers that build on each other, you might not enjoy essentially recreating some illogical business process in code. It seems like programmers are really code-philosophers and code is like a meditation for a lot of them, and they seem to get depressed and discouraged working on things that don't have any beauty or logic or reason and are just reflections of some messy illogical real world process full of extra stuff to deal with untrained users.