Frontend was always complex, being web, mobile or desktop apps. It is following similar cycles from decades ago. Winamp[1] in 1997 made their own UI using custom draw in Windows because those components and level of customization didn't exist in the standard API. We can historically observe these cycles of complexity and technology changes only looking at Windows toolkits: Win32, MFC, QT, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WPF, etc.
But the other reason is that we don't have stable tools and the right abstractions to build a UI/UX for dummies so there is lot of reinvention.
Because nobody built a good UX/UI for dummies that hides this vast complexity?
But the other reason is that we don't have stable tools and the right abstractions to build a UI/UX for dummies so there is lot of reinvention.
Because nobody built a good UX/UI for dummies that hides this vast complexity?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp