[Matthias247]

I don't think 1) is any issue. I worked on desktop apps as well as web apps, and overall I think it's mostly the same. You have some widgets, state, actions, etc - and need to connect all things together.

However I could totally imagine that a team which is familiar with advanced patterns for "connecting everything together" are unhappy with the bare minimum Redux approach. MVVM can be pleasant to work with, and isn't necessarily as much of a ceremony and chore as the redux stuff.

Angular 2 (or whatever version number it is now on) might indeed have made them happier.