Aurelia also feels easier to build with (less unnecessary boilerplate) and more maintainable in the end. The community is small but has made immense strides in a short amount of time. There is a company backing it, but a very small one, not a giant one such as Google or Facebook (and those giant ones make no guarantees, but the small one backing Aurelia has emphasized their long-term commitment time and time again). They have an ever-increasing number of community contributors and features have been added at a rapid pace. Since I began a year and a half ago, UI toolkits have regularly added Aurelia integrations. The CLI has improved by leaps and bounds.
You can find out more on their website and other blogs and articles around the web, but you may find this helpful:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41853743/angular-2-vs-au...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15050841
numerous articles appeared on HN front page, like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15052691
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15147462
also some about other alternatives. Which is a good thing, all together.
BTW, for what it is worth, I don't have stake in any of these platforms, just wanted to point a possible reason to the GP's comment "I'm just really glad Vue is now included in every "X vs Y" framework, or "choosing a js framework", almost every article for the past two years have only been for Angular or React."