[ungawatkt]

I'm in the same boat, good with be and infra, mediocre at best with fe (I've accepted that I just don't enjoy it much). I've taken to very minimal UIs in just vanilla js, html, and almost no css. Basically, punt on the ui until it's something worth doing; if the project turns real either you'll find someone to make a pretty UI quick since the functionality is there, or you'll learn yourself.

Bonus, using ai to write css is much quicker than combinatorially trying every css layout option like I usually do since I never remember that stuff.