[moystard]

My experience is very similar to yours, and I concur with your conclusion. After 5 years of React, I joined a new organisation as engineering lead, and the team had embraced Angular before I joined.

Coming from the React/Next.js world, I was really puzzled with that decision as I still had in mind the trauma of the Angular.js -> Angular migration and the breath of fresh air that React had represented at the time.

As most engineers out there, I had an urge to stick to what I knew would work, but I resisted that urge and gave Angular a chance. I do not regret it; Angular and the structure the framework provides is a game changer for a large project; the conventions make the code and the architecture predictable/testable/scalable. Our time is spent on delivering value for our users. This is, in my opinion, the best quality a technology can have when working on a fairly large project.