And to make up for it, they threw in some even worse parts. Like breaking the syntax of HTML with their templates, making it impossible to edit, validate, transform, generate or consume templates with any of the thousands of existing HTML and XML processing tools.

That, in my opinion, was one of the most terrible ideas I've ever heard come out of the Angular community. And even worse, they refuse to acknowledge that it's a bad idea. That's a very bad sign indeed.