[tgsovlerkhgsel]

> I think a lot of people complaining about Angular haven't actually built an app in Angular 4+. [...] the 1 -> 2 transition frustrated a lot of people who jumped ship and never looked back.

I share this impression and feeling. Telling me that most of the stuff I learned for 1 was now useless (or worse, misleading) because 2 was doing everything differently was the first thing that soured me. The _promise_ of regular breaking changes soured me further, and the steep learning curve and high start-up cost sealed the deal.

With Vue, I can have a small proof of concept running without even a compiler in a few minutes. With Angular, I have to comprehend and set up the entire (new) project structure and sit down for hours learning concepts to be able to do anything - all that while remembering that the last time I learned their proprietary concepts, it all changed shortly after, and that the developers _promise_ that it will continue to change under me.

It _probably_ still makes sense for big projects, but damn, they're doing everything to keep people from trying.