I think you’re right about almost everything except the part where me and others do have those backend and fullstack skills and *still* constantly get classified as frontend or only assigned frontend work. Like due to my backgroup as a network tech I have very strong deployment skills. I did a lot of deployment work, at multiple jobs I did *all* the deployment work or even set up the deployment system entirely, and it was still a struggle for me to convince managers I wasn’t frontend. I don’t know if that’s because they just didn’t get it or if it was sexism, it’s hard to figure it out.

Also I do maintain that it’s harder and harder to be just frontend anyway the way things are coupled together, but maybe it’s a bias from what I personally have been working on the past year or so. Though honestly when templating was less abstracted than it is now, frontend was even more coupled with DB performance/structure.