> 1. UI development is hard to do well. Throughout my career I've seen complexity explosions in C++/Win32, C#/WPF, and JS UIs so this isn't a new phenomenon
The people who complain about current front-end complexity are almost always back-end devs or people who don't touch front-end. However, almost every veteran dev who has developed UIs across many media and environments repeats your point.
The people who complain about current front-end complexity are almost always back-end devs or people who don't touch front-end. However, almost every veteran dev who has developed UIs across many media and environments repeats your point.