Me, a firmware developer, writing baby’s first CSS:

Oh, absolutely the opposite for me too. I’ve written the backend for a project I’m working on, it was smooth sailing the entire time. Define your data model, build an API, think about business logic and security, all very rational and step by step.

Now I have to make the UI. It’s a horrible slog to do basic things. Drag and drop? More like drag my corpse because I’ve dropped dead

I refuse to use JS anymore, so I’m doing everything in WASM (Rust/yew). It’s better, but still pretty high friction.

I agree. backend is a nice pretty, organized place.

Frontend is chaos.