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Its an advanced framework for building larger scale sites. I've found that it scales well and my projects can be successfully transferred to other developers and they can jump right in.

Angular 2.0 addresses many of my complaints. I have a few legitimate ones.

Dependency Injection is being made simpler and I hope less fragile. If something goes wrong in the minimization phase you can easily get the dreaded module not found and your whole app/site is broken. But it makes testing clear and precise and its improved the quality of design of my sites and apps.

Simplify the directive API. Yep, its weird. Its fun when it works though. The ideas of directives will live on in other frameworks regardless. So Angular can't fail, it has already succeeded. Even if it dissolves into web components in the future.

When the animation system gets fully solved then I think angular apps will look/behave so cool that complainers will be compelled to learn it.

Really, its the Rails of the frontend. Which is both a compliment and a criticism ;) They both have too much magic.

[1] http://blog.angularjs.org/2014/03/angular-20.html

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