Is front-end web development dying?

[bennyboy]

I test web apps for the living. I see plenty of common things, like jQuery and Bootstrap (to an extent), but none of the sites I test could be created in Wix or whatever crap GoDaddy produced. The thing about the front-end is that is has to talk to the back-end. No sensible company is going to design a front-end in Wix and then somehow try to jerry-rig it to their back-end servers.

You summarized in 2 lines what I rambled on about for half a page.

I've actually tried to do this in the past-- use a designer to put together a site, and then add my own bells and whistles.

The problem was that the designed code was a freaking nightmare-- meaningless .css class names, stupid amounts of unnecessary in-line style declarations, and so on.  All the postbacks were wired, so that I couldn't add new buttons that posted and did anything on the server side without screwing up the entire navigation system. In the end, it literally took me less time to learn how to properly set up my style sheets and so on than it would have taken me just to fix the shit that auto-designers spew out.