I suspect there's going to be a bit of pushback to this acceleration in numbering.
There was definitely some initial pushback, but we hope to demonstrate with this release that it's a) not that scary and b) good for both developers and users.
Most devs should see significant reduction (upwards of 50%) in their output builds. We think that's a reasonable trade off for a couple hours of work to upgrade.
In this release, most developers should be able to simply update their dependencies and rebuild. We're aiming for regular, planned, minimal changes, rather than Big Bang style change from AngularJS -> Angular.
We'll see how it shakes out, but so far our community has been pretty awesome about it.
We as engineers should not accept this. Business should not be involved in technical decisions like library upgrades. Business and engineering should negotiation development scheduling, nothing more. This means what new features are worked on, what bugs are prioritized, etc. All remaining time should be up to engineering's discretion.
And if business has you working on features full-time, then that's a (really) bad business and you should find a more acceptable company to work for.
Required: 3+ years experience building Angular 4 apps