findingFounders

you're 100% correct. seeing comments like yours downvoted and greyed out makes me very worried for the state of the internet, i can't tell if it's bots or people have really begun to believe that free speech isn't a fundamental pillar of democracy.

yep i really like using rxjs now. i find using "await lastValueFrom(<observable>)" keeps code nicely readable and flat. it has 38m weekly downloads on npm so should be around for a good while.

i think it's when you try to build something complex with angular that you can see advantages come to fruition. the opinionated structure can be quite an advantage when you're working with bigger teams/projects, as it can keep code more consistent/familiar/predictable, so when revisiting a project a few months later, you generally know where to find things quickly

looks like Standalone Components, which are in preview in the latest v14, may yet see the deprecation of angular modules, or at least give more options to devs https://angular.io/guide/standalone-components

With decorators and dependency injection at least you're learning a concept which has been quite widely used across some popular languages/frameworks, there's a chance you'd already have come across these ideas in learning programming.

rxjs definitely can take some learning time, though to get started with basic things like handle an api request with observable it doesn't take long. There's a whole lot you can do, and that power is quite useful for complex scenarios.