[hmottestad]

I'm in your camp.

Used angular for 2 years at work, and for a bunch of personal stuff. Now I'm trying out react, and even though it uses 10-100x as many lines as angular to do simple things. I'm hoping that for more advanced systems it will be on par, with better modularity and maintainability.

Performance is a + with react. Even though you can build performant systems with angular, it just seems to come more natural with react.