[mvdtnz]

Frontenders took a relatively simple problem and inflated the complexity to astronomical scales by wrapping it in ridiculous unnecessary functional programming concepts. And just when it felt like it couldn't get any more arcane or complicated they introduced the hooks API.

The period 2015-2025 was a decade of frontenders fooling their managers into letting them build their own job security into their web UI.

[FranOntanaya]

I'm going to say something that is a bit out there, but to this day web frontend still feels like a downgrade in some ways to basic things Visual Basic had in 1998.

[jrapdx3]

I was having similar thoughts about building UIs back in the late 90s and a few years thereafter. There were a number of tools, I remember using Tcl/Tk to create a GUI scheduling program that was relied on for many years. Later on we had Delphi and numerous others. I suppose building for the web was so much more complicated because the HTML/CSS/JS infrastructure was ill-suited as a basis for comparable GUIs.