Yeah, I came up with a number of potential workarounds to the animation issue, all of which involved doing "non-angular" things. That wasn't ideal, but what rea

Yeah, I came up with a number of potential workarounds to the animation issue, all of which involved doing "non-angular" things. That wasn't ideal, but what really turned me off was how difficult it seemed to be to extend, compose, wrap, or otherwise re-use directives. You're right - you could use ng-switch for add/remove. It's a bit awkward though. I'm curious as to why you'd consider "CSS selectors" a smell in an angular app. I'm assuming you mean some subset of CSS selectors (possibly just the first/last/nth-child selectors I mentioned?), as without selectors you can't really have CSS.