This kind of distorts the issue here. The problem is not lack of highly skilled devs but rather the fact that you need highly skills devs to digest and maintain

This kind of distorts the issue here. The problem is not lack of highly skilled devs but rather the fact that you need highly skills devs to digest and maintain the level of complexity that Angular produces. I'm big believer on light frameworks that does least amount of abstractions and can get out of way if you need. You definitely want to avoid frameworks that claims to abstract everything away and especially those that requires to learn entirely new way of doing pretty much everything and its own world of lingua franca. My preference therefore gravitates towards lighweight stuff like KnockoutJS and likes. Any average dev can understand KnockoutJS in just hour or two. More importantly, most devs can immediately have intuitive understanding of how things work under the hood and therefore can anticipate performance issues or easily extend it.