I haven't faced any of the issues that you talked about. That said, we sort of "get" angular and write proper angular code because we actually understand it well enough. I have seen code in projects which are outright crap. For example, we don't do any DOM manipulations whatsoever in any of our controller code. There were no major hacks that I can recall of.

One thing I agree with is the useless stack traces which made is extremely hard to debug Angular.