[poseid]

this requirement:

"it also only need to work in Chrome – no IE testing necessary"

sounds like they had a preference for AngularJS. I guess your eventEmitter solution was too advanced for that company.

[bobfirestone]

That sounds like a huge leap that because they are only going to test the solutions in chrome that he should have used angular.

[poseid]

without putting value to Angular, many companies that say "works in Chrome" mean "developer friendly". And from "developer friendly", it seems a small step to Angular. Maybe because many developers don't want to invest time learning real JS.