The original angular worked perfectly for me, but that's because I loaded the source code onto my tablet and read the entire thing top to bottom over a few even

The original angular worked perfectly for me, but that's because I loaded the source code onto my tablet and read the entire thing top to bottom over a few evenings in a pub beer garden with a cigarette and a pint to keep me company. Newer frameworks are absolutely better for anybody who isn't sufficiently batshit enough to do that, but much though I enjoy react + mobx (especially react + mobx-state-tree) I've never got to the "I have the core source code in my head and can mentally dry run it as a desk check type operation when debugging" stage with them like I did with early angular so - with the level of jank inherent in its scope nonsense entirely acknowledged - I still occasionally miss it even so. (this is mostly me being nostalgic, I think, the newer stuff is absolutely better but that was a fun few evenings and for its era damn but I could make that thing sing)