[steveBK123]

As a backend guy I uhh.. have long been of the opinion that web dev was always on the slippery slope of deskilling.

I remember working on a project where I was lone backend guy doing data storage/retrieval/aggregation/caching/entitelement/etc all behind a discoverable API that fed the UI everything it needed in a handful of calls.

Meanwhile the web dev guy took 6 weeks of iteration to create a date selector that wasn't awful.

Felt like they were too busy getting stuck gluing together frameworks they didn't understand and thus couldn't integrate well, and not simply writing a little code.

When he finally got it working, it was still awful. You had to select start date, start time, end date, end time.. and if you didn't proceed in the prescribed order the other selector boxes would reset and go wonky, lol.

[BehindBlueEyes]

Sounds like you worked at squarespace... The date picker of their events creation feature works just like that, among other problems with their date selection support like not handling recurring dates...