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I view it as an attempt to reduce the work required in "front end" land, making full stack development more feasible than it is today.

Because software engineers are known for being people who are averse to learning and trying new things out.

As opposed to actually spending their time building useful practical things?

Yes, that's why I manually input 1s and 0s - no time wasted on learning, only outputting practical things.

I hope you don't live every second of your life building useful practical things.

I do actually. What else are you supposed to do with your time? Life is short, best to use it.

I'd say commenting on Hackernews isn't building something, let alone something useful. So that's at least one thing you do that's not that.

Everyone needs a break from time to time. :P

does nothing practical happen on the front end?