[NoNameProvided]

An honest questions: How much have you worked with Angular? I have worked with it since the first release and what I see that it is steadily (albeit sometimes slowly) going into the right direction. Today the dev UX is great and differs nothing from that of using CRA for example. (If we are talking about tooling)

[findingFounders]

i think it's when you try to build something complex with angular that you can see advantages come to fruition. the opinionated structure can be quite an advantage when you're working with bigger teams/projects, as it can keep code more consistent/familiar/predictable, so when revisiting a project a few months later, you generally know where to find things quickly