I worked on a project that used Angular 1.x and I remember thinking then that if this wasn't backed by Google, no one would use it. It was horrible with its mag

I worked on a project that used Angular 1.x and I remember thinking then that if this wasn't backed by Google, no one would use it. It was horrible with its magic directives and MVC on the client side. No thanks. I dumped it for RactiveJS which was waaaaay easier to get started and always had an answer when I needed something more complicated. Simplicity and good design in an API is waaaay under valued.