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"In fairness, your question hardly reads as a question and much more like a halfhearted sigh from someone who hasn't given it much thought."

the connotations are your own. :) the problems with Angular have been beaten to death and i didn't think i needed to include them to foster a conversation. i'm sure i'm not the only one surprised by the graph in the post [0].

even the article that OP links to- "The State of JavaScript: Front-End Frameworks" [1]- would beg the same question. if we take it's research seriously- more people want to learn React. less than half of surveyed Angular users say they would use it again. there is a discrepancy between that survey and Angular's popularity. i think my question is fair. i think dismissing it requires less thought than asking it.

in any case, i didn't say that Google's involvement discredits it. quite the opposite really. a lot of people will admit it's the only reason they've taken it seriously.

[0] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*gmYPusm1EjWu713tmV...

[1] https://medium.com/@sachagreif/the-state-of-javascript-front...