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The problem with Angular 1 is that it was slow and bloated, relatively speaking. Google could have improved on that instead of starting from scratch, or ok, start from scratch but use a different name.

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Restarting was honestly the best decision, they just had the wrong abstractions in AngularJS

It was! The new result just isn't all that much better. They got trapped in their own bubble of complexity.

I think it's a lot better than AngularJS 1.x was, the problem is that it isn't really better than it's competitors.

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