[jf22]

Angular is popular and anything that's popular gets criticized heavily.

Most of its criticisms are from people who don't fully understand angular and that's to be expected. Usually you can find issues with anti-angular rants that would apply to any javascript framework or large library.

Angular provides a very broad set of tools that takes a while to fully appreciate and learn. Of course React or Flux or something else will be "better" than angular at something or other because Flux and React are very specialized frameworks that do one thing very well.