News flash: every aspect of programming for the web ranges from "sucks as much as an open chest wound" to "kinda sucks". "Kinda sucks" is the best we're going t

News flash: every aspect of programming for the web ranges from "sucks as much as an open chest wound" to "kinda sucks". "Kinda sucks" is the best we're going to get for a while. Secondarily, jQuery and angular.js don't serve the same use cases and are not directly comparable. Not all tools need to be general purpose. It's OK for a lathe to be a lathe, a drill press to be a drill press, a soldering iron to be a soldering iron. Complaining that a soldering iron makes a poor hammer just means you don't know how to use a soldering iron, it doesn't mean it's a poor tool.