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Re:Angular 5.2 Now Available – Angular Blog by pluto9 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:48PM (#16118933)
It would mean completely rewriting your UI. Angular 2+ is a completely different framework from 1.x.

2+ shouldn't have even used the Angular name IMO.

Re:Angular 5.2 Now Available – Angular Blog by eitland on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:10PM (#16119620)
FWIW some tools including an official one from Google exist to help in migration.

I've worked with both 1.3-1.5 as well as 2, 4 and 5 and if I inherited a 1.x codebase I'd rewrite it, if necessary one piece at the time.