I see you are an Angular fan Sam. I've been working with Angular since AngularJs. I saw it go from good to worse to better (version 11-13) now.

Angular is team friendly, do you know why?

- opinionated;

- enforced standards;

- all in one solution;

- your beloved CLI;

It is not web development friendly thought, do you know why?

- RxJs;

- Ts(not so much now that its much popular);

- NgModules unique architecture;

- NgZone;

- NgAnimation;

- Strict architecture (thats why you need CLI);

- A lot of complex interfaces (@HostBinding, @input, @component, @ViewChild, etc...). So much configuration to memorize;

- configuration hell;

- Dependency injection;

- Services (provideIn: root vs anything);

- the weird template engines;

- overloaded framework (project types you can build which share a lot of common things and are yet incompatible with each other). Again, thats why you need a CLI.

- etc...

Then...once you get used to (master) all of these you become a fan and realize Angular is awesome.

P.s: It's not fair to compare react vs angular. It's like comparing buying a land versus a furnished apartment. A furnished apartment is always better for people ready to move in. A land is more fun though.

Angular can be more team and java-developers-moving-to-frontend friendly. lol