When I first started coding, I had in mind of becoming a full-stack dev but I realized that front-end is a field that's becoming more complicated as time passes and new technologies evolve or new ones appear. I had too much on my plate trying to learn front-end development and adding back-end to that seemed too much to handle for me so I stuck with front-end development.
What about you? Why aren't you a full stack web developer?
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I used to be, but I've been transferred to a role that focuses on API development and deployment. I still dip onto the other tier of the stack since I need to provide support to developers that consume my API. But not to the degree of when I used to write features from the database up to the browser.
I'm not a full stack web developer because the more I learn, the more I realize that I have little interest in backend, databases and complex system architectures. I enjoy more user interfaces, design aspects, visual journeys and still figuring out how all of that plays with the human psyche.
Because that job description is vague and largely meaningless
Simply put, because I can't be good at everything. I'd rather leave parts of a system to someone who is very good at it than do it myself and create something mediocre.