From looking at the Angular 2 alpha, design documents, etc., it looks to end up with considerably less accidental complexity (from an application developer poin

From looking at the Angular 2 alpha, design documents, etc., it looks to end up with considerably less accidental complexity (from an application developer point of view) than version 1, and it has a lot of ideas under the hood which are reminiscent of React. I think the most visible difference will remain that React is code centric, with templates as a sort of special case of code. Angular (1, 2) is more explicitly divided between code and template. I believe the main driver in choosing between them will not be technical, but cultural. There are many organizations where considerable value is ascribed to the notion of code versus template, such organizations might lean toward Angular (especially in version 2) over React and friends.