I purposely chose to build on angular 1 instead of angular 2 when I started a project about a year ago. I'm actually glad I did, because every question you have has an answer already on the internet. I think it's actually good to stay behind the times in a lot of ways, let everybody else work out the bugs, then jump on board once it's all working well. Of course if I started now I would go with Vue, which I think is what angular 2 should have been - faster and simpler.