Angular 2+ missed the mark on a few things. Most critically, they missed the mark on Components. Compared to Vue, React, Preact, Marko, etc...Angular 2 components are extremely verbose. And this a big problem, because Components are the building blocks for any UI.

Angular has other issues like the AOT compilation file sizes and the fact that certain standard language features are not supported with it. But even having to know the ins and odds of AOT vs JIT...these aren't even things you have to worry about in any of the ones I mentioned above.

I really wish the Angular team had learned the best lessons from React...but they didn't. It's definitely better than Angular 1...but it's not as good as these other alternatives.