Frontend and raw SQL are the steepest and most effective, yet lesser regarded skills you can have imho. The entire backend stack feels like a giant relay. You c

Frontend and raw SQL are the steepest and most effective, yet lesser regarded skills you can have imho. The entire backend stack feels like a giant relay. You connect the meaningful dots in the database and whatever the user sees. That's where most projects I've seen shine and fall the harshest. This didn't seem to be the case when MVC was a thing. Nowadays REST APIs just mirror a domain or CRUD where you offload the thinking to the frontend. I have seen horrendous amounts of spaghetti...