Angular is popular at places the HN crowd tends to not work at (banks, consulting, fortune whatevers). Not sure why that is.
It's my opinion that Angular would have safeguarded those projects from a scattered architecture with its opinionated framework, and ultimately resulted in less overhead associated with onboarding new resources and getting them up to speed.
The types of companies you listed aren't necessarily known as being engineering focused, and for a React project to really scale, I think that you need a good engineering culture to make that happen. Choosing Angular alleviates some of that work, and that's exactly what some companies need.
(*) By bloat I mean that I often feel like I should have been able to implement whatever feature I just implemented in half the amount of code.