> A lot of the apps I work with have front-ends developed by one team, and those rely on back-ends developed by one or more teams

I hope that one effect of AI assistance will be that we can go back to full stack teams again. It should be easier to know enough about both sides to be productive in them with AI help.

Then things like backend templates + HTMX would maybe work great for 90% of apps and be vastly simpler than the huge pile of technology we've been using in the frontend.