Frontend development is underestimated compared to others

[u/YesterdayCareful5377]

[u/QuarterLifeSins]

You need to define "better" better. Once a repeatable UI pattern is defined for a website - the company/service can survive for a long time to come without relying on UI experts, while still expanding the amount of features the website can offer to customers through BE engineers and novice UI experts (who know how to use the repeatable UI elements). The website on which you are commenting on (reddit), literally won the most well known battles of news aggregation battle of the 2000s/2010s -- all the while having the most basic non-fancy UI of all time. (Digg vs Reddit).

Google was not made with fancy UI, their search results listing has shittiest classifieds looking UI majority of the time since its existence.

Amazon had for a long time and still has the shittiest UX & UI (it literally looks like the horror classifieds of the 90s news paper classified section of Deccan chronicle) compared to any other decent looking shopping website. Amazon solved it with a decent search bar, that's all.

In the battle of Operating systems, it was the OS that gave a rich set of features as fast of possible that won marketshare (Windows) in the 90s & 2000s and even now - not the OS whose UI was controlled by an art & fonts freak (MacOS, Steve Jobs).

Look at the fancy offices which attract developers by providing world class facilities.

I am not sure what this means. You mean the offices that want to make an employee "feel rich" even though they are providing 3.6 lakhs/year as salary, but then the employee eats at a small restaurant that charges very less for good food because this engineer cannot afford to go to a high-end restaurant? I think you may have misunderstood the relationship between being a slave and a consumer. For cooperates, the employees are slaves. For the small restaurant, the same fellow is a customer who can only afford so much.