I guess I wasn't wrong to keep using Angular, all alternatives eventually become as complex, with lots of little libraries to keep track of.
My team understood the strengths and weaknesses, and we utilised almost all of the features that it provided.
The >2.x releases didn’t provide much value for us, and didn’t solve any problems that we had. So the motivation to migrate and refactor was low.
I still think Angular 1.x is a decent library, and have often contemplated contributing fixes/security to a fork.
However, if you see other posts from me, you would also notice that I am largely involved in projects that are quite strong in Java and .NET stacks with SSR.
So even Angular isn't there in every project.