We've had a similar experience at https://starthq.com https://starthq.com. One thing we noticed when writing directives is that it's often faster and easier to

We've had a similar experience at https://starthq.com https://starthq.com. One thing we noticed when writing directives is that it's often faster and easier to implement them from scratch rather than wrapping a jQuery plugin. Also, we've pushed a couple of fixes upstream and had them appear in a stable release within a few weeks due to the quick release cycle.