And the complaints hold less and less water each year. In 2015, people were still complaining about trying to build stable layouts using CSS. Congratulations,

And the complaints hold less and less water each year. In 2015, people were still complaining about trying to build stable layouts using CSS. Congratulations, we now have Grid and Flexbox (and subgrids just stabilized!) but they still complain. They complain about having to write custom Javascript (which is slow and has to be maintained) so functionality gets pushed into CSS and they complain that CSS is getting too complicated. There were people complaining about the "Javascript framework of the week". Then React took over the space, and now they complain about how everything's written for React and we should just use htmx and Svelte. I thought we didn't want something new every week! There were people complaining that Webpack was slow and required too much up-front configuration. Then Vite came out (which is fast and only requires minimal configuration) and they went back to complaining about having to learn new things. The best explanation I can come up with is that most organizations must just treat FE as an afterthought and assign people to do that work who have no experience or interest in it.