[allover]

Stating the obvious, but that's the fault of whoever decided to do it in Angular and didn't understand the trade-offs of single page apps. If an app can be just as easily (or more easily) implemented server-side with no 'relevant' impact on UX, it probably should be.

[collyw]

It does give a bit more interactivity, but had it been up to me the majority of the logic would be server side with a bit of client side JavaScript. The amount of duplicated code for a very small amount of extra interactivity really doesn't seem worth the effort to me.