It never ceases to amaze me what a shitshow the front end is.

It amazes me that it works at all. A frontend is like a function that takes the human body as input. The shitshow is the input, the humans, not where the code is located.

Did you see the tailwind media not long ago about having to lay off a majority of their workforce?

I saw that. I loved their book and they get a lot of stuff right. Selling licenses just isn't the business that it used to be.