Ehm.
In most enterprise scenarios I've experienced, front-end was never ever just a matter of "let's write some cute CSS and throw in some hipster javascript library for super 1337 effects". People often mistake "front-end" for "aesthetic design".
Creating a proper scalable and dynamic view architecture that is compatible with one or multiple template systems is not easy.
I joined in on an interview the other day were the interviewee randomly started dissing front-end, when asked to mock a simple Spring MVC + FreeMarker facebook clone, he froze.
TLDR: front-end is not equal to hobby-web-design.