Don’t get angry but now that you wrote it like this, I do wonder if this would have an effect on a developer’s mindset. If you consider your backend “the heart of your baby” so basically the USP of your project that only you reign upon, and at the same time have your frontend open to the public for anyone to touch and put their hands on → then wouldn’t you become, at least subconsciously, more eager to work on your backend?
I know there is disagreement among the community on the priority of a UI/UX redesign, but maybe this is one factor that has lead to me writing this the other day: