Boring front-end developers also aren't involved in the project planning or design process so they're low-status. Of course I expect them to follow the spec and

Boring front-end developers also aren't involved in the project planning or design process so they're low-status. Of course I expect them to follow the spec and do things the boring way, because that's what they're paid to do. New tech? That's a new risk, better find someone else who will do exactly what we ask and not try to "improve" things. What I see from the frontend developer community with all these new frameworks and tools is a rebellion against project managers and clients and the whole agency model which makes creating websites the most bland process imaginable. Every single thing listed in the article is more fun. Being boring is fine but you better be paying the dev either very little because you don't really value them, they're simply a machine for turning your ideas into code; or you pay them a lot because you know if you don't they'll leave and take their great ideas and work for a competitor or start consulting and stealing clients.