The nature of the challenges in backend and frontend development are different to an extend that the measurement of the level of difficulty one might come up with become rather pointless.
The expectations on the user interfaces of many products have undeniably grown a lot. I find it very interesting to notice, that web frontend development seems to be used synonymously with frontend development per se, ignoring the applications with user interfaces for desktop and native mobile devices.
A lot of user interfaces in enterprise systems still are little more than glorified database table editors. Thinking about the non technical human being that ends up actually editing those tables (aka the user) is a task which has been and partly still is neglected. And in many cases only for the reason, that it is easier for a developer to coerce their users to satisfy the applications needs (as perceived from the devs point of view). Now, it has been and still is more than overdue, for this to change on a broad scale, for that kind of design is very much the proverbial tail wagging the dog.
To conclude with regard to the original questing, I think frontend development has simply emancipated from being a negligible by-product of a system to be an engineering subdiscipline in its own right, which comes with hard problems to solve and a technological ecosystem which is adjusting to that.
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The nature of the challenges in backend and frontend development are different to an extend that the measurement of the level of difficulty one might come up with become rather pointless.
The expectations on the user interfaces of many products have undeniably grown a lot. I find it very interesting to notice, that web frontend development seems to be used synonymously with frontend development per se, ignoring the applications with user interfaces for desktop and native mobile devices.
You might have stumbled across this cartoon (at least six years old, but still very much to the point): usabilitycounts.com/2012/01/31/sim...
A lot of user interfaces in enterprise systems still are little more than glorified database table editors. Thinking about the non technical human being that ends up actually editing those tables (aka the user) is a task which has been and partly still is neglected. And in many cases only for the reason, that it is easier for a developer to coerce their users to satisfy the applications needs (as perceived from the devs point of view). Now, it has been and still is more than overdue, for this to change on a broad scale, for that kind of design is very much the proverbial tail wagging the dog.
To conclude with regard to the original questing, I think frontend development has simply emancipated from being a negligible by-product of a system to be an engineering subdiscipline in its own right, which comes with hard problems to solve and a technological ecosystem which is adjusting to that.