Yes I think the Reactive Forms work really well for the most part, and the type-safety is such a shame.
I agree 100% with the big components. I can literally feel myself thinking "I should split this up.. but it's so much work" - where there's just much less friction doing that in React.
Reactive Forms are really great in general, but not being strongly typed is really a shame. I am aware though that it's not easy to actually make it strongly typed for various reasons.
For a component-based framework, it's way too tedious in Angular to actually create components. Too often I create big components because I can't bring myself to split it into smaller components. In React it is so natural to create components you can do it even while you develop a feature (without it being overhead). I hardly do that in Angular because it's just too much work.