On the contrary. The reason front-end development is so much worse than regular development is some bizarre collective fetish for avoiding Javascript, avoiding

On the contrary. The reason front-end development is so much worse than regular development is some bizarre collective fetish for avoiding Javascript, avoiding dependencies, and writing ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of half of React. It's some kind of Luddism meets Protestant work ethic nonsense, and I'm continually baffled that otherwise intelligent people - people who would never have this kind of attitude in regular programming - keep falling into it.