I really don&#x27;t know what to say to this. What kinds of applications do you work on? If what you do is primarily CRUD front-end stuff, then sure, I suppose you can get by without really understanding how to write general-purpose code. But pretty much anything past simple CRUD is going to start implicating simple data structures pretty quickly.<p>I can cite examples from the front-end I&#x27;m working on right now, but that wouldn&#x27;t sound like a fair example (it&#x27;s an AVR debugger). But all sophisticated applications are complicated in their own ways, and most of them require developers who can actually, you know, program.<p>Even if all you&#x27;re doing is CRUD, how much computer science is embedded in even a straightforward framework like React? &quot;Lots&quot;, is I think the answer.