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I think, unlike the author, I had pretty solid reasons why I didn't like it. Most applications are glorified forms on the front-end and Angular2 has the most rigid and difficult form handling I've used in a web framework.

Form validation is a long-solved problem and doing custom validation is a huge pain. Accessing the raw DOM sets off warning bells but in Angular2 it needs to be done for simple things like form field focus. You need to implement FieldValueAccessor for custom fields and the documentation for that sucks.

There's two different form libraries that are largely incompatible. Underneath that several ways to instantiate and manipulate both types of forms. It's so hard to build practical components that Angular2 Material still isn't finished.

If my company wasn't using ng2 extensively I would jump ship for react asap