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Yes obviously. Angular started as "Angular 2" (as in version 2 of AngularJS) and didn't exist until like half a decade after AngularJS. You think it was 'clear

• hnbad 5y ago
  Not only that, Angular 2 spent an extremely long time in beta with several major changes (the original architecture was built around "Object.observe", which was a proposed language feature that was canned after Google tried to implement it and realized there was no way to make it efficient). Users looking into Angular were actively discouraged from using Angular 2 prior to its stable release despite AngularJS being clearly a dead end and even after the dust had settled there was no clear upgrade path from AngularJS to Angular 2. By comparison React has provided automated code migration scripts for every breaking change and continuous to support class-based components and lifecycle events despite most of the ecosystem having moved on to function-based components and hooks. Say what you will about React, Facebook or Meta, but at least there have always been clear upgrade paths that didn't involve rewriting the entire application from scratch.