@polotek@social.polotek.net wow this hit home hard. I spent ~7 yrs as a “front end dev” writing client-side JS for 3rd party scripts, plug-ins for products, browser extensions, but no/little actual UI dev. I learned loads about HTTP, JSON, JS build tooling, telemetry, vanilla DOM scripting. Then the company pivoted hard and suddenly I’m building react dashboards. UX debt got out of control quickly since that wasn’t taken seriously at product level. Half my week became design meetings.