Yep! I’m full stack and have no clue why some people want to say frontend engineering is “less than” backend. It’s all a means to an end. The product requires both sides equally in most cases, and neither side is trivial.

If anything, what I miss from doing "backend" is the ability to just pull in whatever library I want to solve a problem.

I need a web server to work by slapping together fifteen Java libraries from thirteen different code houses and writing an absolute Shoggoth of shim code to convert between their types and classes? Sure, whatever, datacenter storage is damn near free.

I need to put code on a client machine on the internet? You'd best pick one of these date libraries, because there's no way in hell we're justifying shipping moment and Joda down the wire.