New post, kind of weirdly personal-feeling one. I don't know if it'll land with you, but I hope it at least gives you something to consider.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/devaluing-frontend

The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.

Josh Collinsworth

@collinsworth I've been writing CSS / front-of-the-frontend for 25 years or so.

It's something I've battled over the years. I don't think this is anything new though, or that it's necessarily gotten any worse. I think the rise of libraries since Bootstrap forced a lot of people to not actually learn CSS, and it feels there are less practitioners (especially in Design).

Some positivity. Outside of some Python folks, no one else can say their primary programming lang is the same as 25 years ago.

@davesnider @collinsworth and to add, not only 25+ years old but will run on any browser. That's... pretty compelling