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Modern frontend development often involves a large degree of cross-domain expertise that extends well beyond design, so much that in large enough companies, the designer is a dedicated role, and the frontend developer simply implements their design according to spec. In even larger companies, you will see further specialized roles such as UX engineer.

If you think of FE web development as just HTML, CSS, JS and the framework de jour then I could see that. However, the most skilled FE engineers I know aren’t just doing that. It involves handling CI/CD, performance profiling/enhancements, CDNs, debugging node environments, asset management, caching strategies and the list goes on. I’m not necessarily arguing that it should be included in CS degrees but all of that is surely not a designers job.

I think there should be a new SE field for this.

They weren't in a CS curriculum, they said they were pursuing software engineering.

Ah I see, I got confused because they mentioned not holding a CS-degree.