Why Angular 2/4 Is Too Little, Too Late

Having used both react and Angular... Angular is a massively over-engineered mess. It abstracts away so much of web app development that anything built using it will be obsolete the moment Google stops supporting it.<p>It abstracts away error handling, the http client(????), compilation, uses (still) non standard decorators to function. I would be fine with this if those were broken parts of JavaScript, but those are some of the few things that work fine.<p>Instead of paving over the bad parts of JS they built a platform within a platform. Not to mention the learning curve is insane because of this. Might as well throw your knowledge of JS and browsers API&#x27;s out the window because you won&#x27;t be using any of those in Angular4.<p>It&#x27;s the new webforms

Also: Angular 2&#x27;s Change Detection is a flaming tire fire of needless complexity.<p>Everyone benchmarks a Todo app and concludes that it has comparable perf to React. In practice, Angular 2&#x27;s Change Detection makes apps incredibly slow.<p>Change Detection in a reasonably large app resembles a bucket of water, sloshing back and forth. Every template event and timer causes your Component tree to be re-rendered every time.<p>Because Angular doesn&#x27;t encourage immutable data by default, and its ngFor directive optimizes for mutating data... Apps have a tremendous amount of trouble migrating to OnPush at a later time. It&#x27;s a mine field riddled with gotchas and edge cases.<p>Angular2 lacks coherence. Or maybe its unifying theme is massive, needless complexity. It&#x27;s not worth the trouble.

Interesing article, I hadn&#x27;t spent the time to follow the drama of these frameworks as we are still using AngularJS 1.X at work. I enjoy working with AngularJS and would be satisfied to build future projects with it.<p>Will I be missing out if I choose to stick with an end-of-life framework that does everything I need or is it worth while to make the jump and invest the time to relearn something that I have already solved? Truly confused here.