I've got used to the fact that outsiders aren't ever up to date with whatever is happening on the front-end.

Nobody ever seems to remark on how most UIs these days manage to be incredibly complex compared to how often they crash. Whereas if you look at older software or OS GUIs, the simplicity is astounding while still having more crashes. The point being that despite the bad rap that frontend dev gets, it’s actually made progress on the UI development front that is pretty much unrecognized.