Is front-end web development dying?

[I_am_not_mafia]

I've been amazed just how long front end development has continued in the state that it has. When you're faced with a mess of code filled with HTML, Javascript, JQuery, Spring, Java and whatever other library or framework someone has chosen to use, it's all a complete mess. And what does it all do? Essentially just inputs, queries and retrieves data from a database and then displays it. In terms of structured software engineering it's the web development equivalent to writing a word processor in assembler. And what do people do? They create yet another framework to use alongside existing technologies and make it even more difficult than it needs to be.