Ask HN: Any back-end devs swiched to front-end or a mix? What's your experience?

I've recenty been becoming a bit daunted by doing back-end, mostly freelancing for infrastructure and devops scene.

In a lot of teams I worked front-end skills (or lack thereof) was an elephant in the room - people avoided it at all costs and I find it a good value to be able to prototype quickly usable UIs for a proof of concept.

I have moderate JS experience, some React knowedge, a bit of CSS and bootstrap.

Anyone who moved positions to front-end from back-end, how was your experience?