As a fullstack dev doing roughly 50/50 of both, massive agree. At least in JS land it's just JS, in the backend you even have to choose between entirely different languages sometimes, all of which have similar complexities to deal with.
By comparison, especially these days, making something like a Vue or React app couldn't be simpler. You run a single command and get everything generated for you, then you point it to one of a million free hosting sites out there and boom presto, you're live.
I feel like people are just afraid/cocky to admit they're too lazy to think about the frontend for whatever reason. All the arguments I've ever heard have been quite shallow and easily disproven if you spend, like, 5 minutes reading through some docs.
By comparison, especially these days, making something like a Vue or React app couldn't be simpler. You run a single command and get everything generated for you, then you point it to one of a million free hosting sites out there and boom presto, you're live.
I feel like people are just afraid/cocky to admit they're too lazy to think about the frontend for whatever reason. All the arguments I've ever heard have been quite shallow and easily disproven if you spend, like, 5 minutes reading through some docs.