Compare this to how people write React components, they all look pretty much the same no matter what application you are working on. Sure there has been some churn, but there are tons of helpful warnings when they have happened and the migrations are easy. The community is also on the same exact page when it comes to writing components.

Outside of components there's a lack of the same cohesiveness with competing architectures. But the good ideas are rising to the top and the bad ones are fizzling away. I don't see it as a bad thing.

However, to the point about style guide/anti-patterns: I guess we haven't been working in the same codebases.. I've worked on a handful of different projects and most have scope flying all of the place, with controllers and directives used interchangeably (not to mention factories/services/providers). But really my biggest gripe is the amount of logic that ends up in disparate HTML attributes. JSX is a much cleaner solution.

> There's One Way™ to do things correctly. Using anti-pattern "hacks" will work for a little bit, but in the long run come back to bite you as your software grows and scales.

This is true, but in the given context that this is not true in the Angular world, that is definitely false. Some of the things you've mentioned are considered known abuses/anti-patterns/etc.

I sometimes wish for an opinionated framework that's built around React and possibly Redux (that said, I have pretty strong opinions so there would have to be significant overlap)

That said, I never got deep enough into Angular to know whether React is better or worse in that respect.