Did a big project with Angular 1.0 and after it clicked it was alright. I really enjoyed it, everything made sense. I thought Angular would be my best friend.

Tried Angular 2.0 and it's a completely different beast it seems. A simple project cookie cutter has 6 different files, it is ridiculous.

I had to edit the /etc/sysctl.conf just to go through the tutorial using Papa John's configuration and fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 else it would crash.

All this transpiling and whatnot just to get a javascript app to run is way too much. 6 files of boilerplate is just nonsense.

Lost all interest in Angular 2.x.

going to either stick with angular 1.x or try react/vue, which is a shame.