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As far as I know, "Full Stack" is a misused term for developers who are able to do everything from devops to front-end development/ui/ux design.
Why would you say this? It's incredibly offensive, and adds nothing to your argument. A full stack dev might not be as good as a specialized dev in any of backend / devops / frontend, but that's just the price you pay for being a generalist. That doesn't mean they 'pretend to be able' to do things.
It's about as useful as the term 'Ninja' or 'Rockstar' in that it's used when people can't articulate succinctly what they mean (or they don't really want to take the time to do so).
That reminds me how years ago companies were recruiting developers with PHP/MySQL/Flash/Photoshop/CorelDraw, etc...
The term is very difficult to define, because you keep on getting different answers for what the stack actually is.
It's really a question of scope.
In my opinion "full stack" is what all developers actually should be. 15 years ago, it was normal that, as a developer, you know how to administer a server, know how Unix works, know how to setup/debug the database. Maybe know a bit of C. Fast forward to 2015. Lots of developers are purely frontend developers and don't know how to setup a server, or don't know how to administer the database. This is now the norm. The…
A lot of us actually don't even touch the web all day long, not even for fun.