I'm a big angularjs fan butI agree with all the points made by the OP. I will however stick with angularjs because frankly there is no better alternative. the

I'm a big angularjs fan butI agree with all the points made by the OP. I will however stick with angularjs because frankly there is no better alternative. the selling points for me are: - Testing:Karma,Protractor,dependency injection are fundamental when working with a team.Everything is so easy to test,so easy to mock. - Speed:Sorry but there is no other framework that makes front-end dev faster.I can come up with very complex apps within hours,fully tested. - Resources:20+ books,hundreds of blogs,1000+ directives on the web. - Easy to integrate with legacy jquery mess:since jQlite is compatible with jQuery,I can just drop a jQuery plugin in a directive observe something with no effort and have it rendered properly. The main drawbacks: - Dont expect to understand angular without a serious understanding of javascript. - Performances: yes there are performance issues,but when they show up,one needs to work on these issues. - Probably too much hype.