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I think Angular really delivered after they finally worked out how to do emit optimized code (eg. the Ivy rendering engine).
What is (was?) problematic with Angular is the toxic leadership: https://medium.com/@jeffbcross/jeffs-letter-to-the-angular-t...
But there are great things happening. The wider community has solutions for everything. (For example here's the "reactive forms are not strongly typed" issue [0] that showcases both the good and the bad. The need for this feature has clearly emerged in 2016. People stepped up and a PR was created, but ... basically no signal from the Angular team. Of course using a wrapper was an easy workaround with a distinctly sour taste in the mouth. Then finally something happened and an Angular team member now seems to be working on it in "full steam ahead" mode.)
I recently had to maintain a large React + NestJS application and I was seriously considering organizing a terrorist cell to go back in time and ...
[0] https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/13721
Yeah I agree with the idea of pivoting. I suppose to clarify:
* Pivoting would leverage existing technology built in the process of initial concept. Which to me is the equivalent of scrapping the initial idea (while salvaging the generally-useful IP/technology).
* Adding a bunch of tangential features to a product to increase revenue is a colossal fuckup scenario (maybe the language is a bit over dramatic).
For instance, Google is great at search; gmail is cool; docs was innovative (albeit limited); and then… https://killedbygoogle.com/