> You mean you're not interested in what a huge part of the industry is doing? Well then that explains why you don't see the benefit.

Yes, you chopped off the important half of the sentence, and responded as if I hadn't written it. I said that I wasn't interesting because CRUD apps are already so easy to write in many different frameworks.

Let's assume that what you're saying is true—that most shops want all of those skills rolled into one person. The people I've met that are good at both front-end and back-end development are comfortable in multiple languages to begin with. The developers who only know JavaScript and are not comfortable in other languages are not good full stack developers.

But I don't believe that this is true to begin with, most places I've seen or the places where my friends work have people who focus on front-end and people who focus on back-end. There's just too much of a crazy front-end landscape to expect magic from someone who doesn't live in that world, and back-end is its own world.