> Mostly, nobody actually says frontend is less important, or less real, or that you don’t have to be as smart to do it. But it often seems to be implied.

This isn’t a “trend” it’s a feature of the industry and has been going on for at least two decades. The fact we pressed web technologies designed for content publishing into frontend user interfaces is a product of how little we care about frontend.

The heyday of the “frontend” was the late 1980s and early 1990s when Apple was serious about UIs. But even within Apple that’s dead.