True. And like any other framework one can work around the bad parts by developing custom solutions, but Angular's one of the main features are its two-way bind

True. And like any other framework one can work around the bad parts by developing custom solutions, but Angular's one of the main features are its two-way binding which also happens to create one of the biggest performance bottlenecks as the application scales up. This can be fixed easily (bindonce is just one example) though it leaves Angular with little value.