I could rant for a while, but a few things off the top of my head: over-architected, overly complex, sometimes bad tooling (karma, protractor), tons of old issues (though they’ve been working to clean this up lately), big time inner platform effect (the templating feels like a language to itself), slow compilation, RxJS is generally overkill, Reactive forms is untyped(!) and clunky, and the “included batteries” are sometimes later removed leaving you to figure it out yourself, such as with protractor and eslint. If I’m just gonna figure it out, why not use React anyway and get a much simpler framework?

That said, for a team or teams with lots of apps where a consistent structure provides real benefits in getting up to speed, I can appreciate that some of angular’s enforced structure could be helpful.

Angular is simpler for me than React. I don truly understand the hate. I can built applications fasters in angular than React. I still use React sometimes, but I always go back to Angular.