if you are that good, then why are you wasting your time with front ends? Go into databases. You're apparently already starting to age out of the young and dumb and works overtime flotsam.
I work at pretty much all levels of the pie, but my passion is with what the user interacts with, which is why I tend to gravitate towards the front-end.
Being "good" has nothing to do with being a back-end programmer, imho. One could even argue that the front-end of today is far more complex than most back-ends!
> Being "good" has nothing to do with being a back-end programmer, imho
That's a tough one. As I see it, a lot of the complexity in frontends is in framework feature bloat, subpar tooling and high tech churn as compared to backends. In a word: immaturity. Frontend doesn't guarantee backcompat like backend technologies do, which is also a large part of the (unnecessary) complexity. Obviously, frontends are additionally subject to the whims of fashion in a way that doesn't apply to backends.
In contrast, backends have mature frameworks that can deal with most concerns, allowing the developer to operate on a higher level and with greater confidence in the basic nuts and bolts. Package management is generally sane, to boot.
How much less complex would frontend be if we weren't trying to cram applications into a document model and instead had built-in support for controls/components, theming, data binding and inter-component events? If JavaScript didn't have so many shortcomings or perhaps even gradual typing?
In my experience, frontend skews young whereas backend skews older. That leads to junior class errors in frontends, such as not understanding the benefit of type annotations in a dynamic language and general cowboy behaviour. Perhaps the latter is also down to the general "move fast and break things" approach in JS land.
My own conclusion is backend developers as a group tend to be better, but that's mainly by virtue of having more experience under the belt, being less impatient and taking a longer view.
I’m a mostly backend dev (I dabble in Vue), but it’s seemed to me for some time that browsers are effectively operating systems. The level of complexity of the JS/HTML/CSS troika is staggering, and the number of APIs in a browser pretty much gives you access to abstractions of the whole machine. It’s nuts!
So I have complete respect for professional front end devs. They are every bit as smart as any other developer I’ve ever met.
And then with all that they make it look good too. Something I’m apparently genetically incapable of!
Being "good" has nothing to do with being a back-end programmer, imho. One could even argue that the front-end of today is far more complex than most back-ends!