I sure was when I had to do front end work. Finally got out of anything front-end for good and it's probably been the single most pleasant change in my career ever. I didn't start out doing front end work though, so I could see while I was doing it how ridiculous it was compared to almost any other domain in software dev and only getting worse. A good portion of front end devs I meet have not done anything else so they don't have a point of reference.
