And it's all so you can type `model.key = value` instead of `model.set(key, value)`. When I began using Angular I thought the latter was clunky and verbose. A f

And it's all so you can type `model.key = value` instead of `model.set(key, value)`. When I began using Angular I thought the latter was clunky and verbose. A few months in I would have loved to have that control back. And yes, the scoping was a nightmare. Like others here, the app I was working on hit a hard performance limit with the digest cycle. When the main table of our app got to a certain number of rows it started to crawl on a desktop browser and was just unusable on a mobile device. And we tried so many things but there was just no real way out of it. It's crazy to me that people even offer up such things as infinite scrolling as a way out. The weird thing was, I was by far the most experienced web developer working in that part of the organization, but all the backend/.NET dev and project managers were insisting on Angular as "the future of web development". I recall being spooked by how insistent they were, even though I had nothing against Angular at the time and wanted to learn it. Bringing up some performance caveat about data-binding wouldn't have gone anywhere, even had I the foresight to raise the issue. I don't work there anymore but as far as I know they just... left it that way. So the most intensive users of the app got the worst experience. I know this is snarky but I suspect that's the kind of shop that should use Angular.