I wouldn't say, "Angular is hard". I'd say that some pieces of is are "non-standard". And because of that, some of that "non-standardness" has been allowed to f

I wouldn't say, "Angular is hard". I'd say that some pieces of is are "non-standard". And because of that, some of that "non-standardness" has been allowed to fester to the point of flat out mental hiccups. I maintain that Angular kisses on the first date. Your first experience is going to make you feel those wonderful butterflies that you felt the very first time you ever wrote some HTML and hit refresh on a page. Where it quickly falls apart is in many tried and true practices in web dev. It's just not straight up html/css/js. It's a NEW thing. The good thing is, the Angular devs have an eye on what's coming up, and I believe (and/or hope) that we're going to see a huge "merge bubble" close and those of us that use Angular will be up to speed.