> A lot of programmers may not know this, but frontend used to be a highly specialized skill, requiring knowledge of semantic HTML, CSS, the differences of various browsers, accessibility, progressive enhancement, network performance, interface design and user testing – to just name a few.

This would give the previous generation of frontend developers (aka C/C++ developers) a good chuckle. The web was viewed as a massive lowering of the barrier to entry and a "deskilling" of the craft. Assembly programmers probably thought the same of C/C++ developers.