I can't comment on the benefits at scale that another poster cites, but I've been working on an Angular project in a small team for four years now. This was qui

I can't comment on the benefits at scale that another poster cites, but I've been working on an Angular project in a small team for four years now. This was quite close to a greenfield project, only a very small amount of code had been written, but we decided to keep it and stick to Angular even though two out of three of us had more experience with React. I had done both React and AngularJS and went in thinking that there wasn't much of a difference between frameworks. I would not pick Angular again for a new project under any circumstances. We have had many problems with the build system (e.g., an update suddenly bumped build times to several minutes due to some configuration option), the build process is ridiculously heavy, our laptops with 16GB RAM struggle with it often. And we have had countless bugs related to component initialization and statefulness that I am certain would not exist in React. Our code is littered with early returns and ?.s that exist only because things are undefined for a split second before all the state comes in. We use a lot of RxJs, but it's quite often like coding in two separate environments and you need to write a bunch of boiler plate to bridge the observables to the inputs. There's no way in hell we're ever going to be able to move all the old code over to strict null checking, so we're missing out on a lot of the benefits of Typescript. I don't agree with Angular's decision to have component classes that get newed once and then kept around for a long time and manually updated. It's much less ergonomic than React's way of doing things, and the statefulness leads to real bugs. The untyped templating language is just... bad. Quite often typos and bugs lead to JS errors being spammed to the console at ~60Hz, which used to freeze my browser (though I think Firefox has fixed this by now). And I haven't seen a single benefit of this! My co-worker (who picked Angular and has previous experience with it) cites performance, but honestly the only performance related comment I have with is that my high-end Thinkpad has trouble keeping up with the build system. Are we using it wrong? Probably. But we're not being clever. We started from simple examples and moved from there. I read documentation and tutorials, and I still feel like there's so much I don't understand. After four years.