Admittedly, I do use Angular and I do love it. So take my comment with a grain of salt. But from my perspective, I'd rather inherit a messy AngularJS project r

Admittedly, I do use Angular and I do love it. So take my comment with a grain of salt. But from my perspective, I'd rather inherit a messy AngularJS project rather than a messy jQuery project. Or Backbone. With jQuery or Backbone, who knows what kind of stack they decided to use, or what kind of crazy hacks they implemented to get it to work? The same thing can happen in AngularJS, but at least it is more probable that they'll be relying on out-of-box tools for core functionality. Now, I agree that in general, web software front end projects can be gross, but I find Angular to be the least gross solution.