There are generally two kinds of people who love to hate on Angular: 1) those who have used Angular, been burned by it and are now sour about it; 2) those who

There are generally two kinds of people who love to hate on Angular: 1) those who have used Angular, been burned by it and are now sour about it; 2) those who haven't used Angular but hate {JavaScript|frameworks|SPAs|the web|anything popular} out of principle. The first category includes both those who hate it because they don't understand it and those who hate it precisely because they do understand it. I wouldn't say I hate Angular, but I'd like to think of myself as being in the latter subset of the first category.