[1thrasher]

> Every version essentially breaks the previous one.

This is simply not true. It might have been true in the early Angular v2 days, but since v6 or so, updates are relatively trivial.

https://update.angular.io has your back extremely well. The trick is to ensure whatever third party libs you're using have also been updated, otherwise you're application may break.

[epolanski]

Exactly, not only updating the application is an issue, but third party libraries quickly lose support for previous versions.