For me, the worst parts of Angular are all about it elaborately reimplementing things that already exist in Javascript. I think the most obvious example is its

For me, the worst parts of Angular are all about it elaborately reimplementing things that already exist in Javascript. I think the most obvious example is its template expressions and pipes. Instead of being able to have Just Javascript, there's an entirely new syntax they want you to learn and to write special handlers for, and the extra overhead that comes with its parsing behavior.