While true that an outsider looking in at all of Angular at once can be really turned off by its complexity, it's no different than any other big tool or applic

While true that an outsider looking in at all of Angular at once can be really turned off by its complexity, it's no different than any other big tool or application: you don't have to understand all of it to use it. You can use a very small subset of Angular to great effect (say the handful of built in directives for databinding). The nice part is you can get up and running with the simple stuff to make cool things, but there's still the whole rest of the framework waiting for you to learn it that allows you to build awesome, advanced projects.