People who love Angular really love it, so I trust that there's a legitimate place for it. I think one of the main things people love is that the convention and tooling eliminates a ton of the noise and redundancy that the other tools tend to lead to as teams slap applications together without sufficient guard rails.

Essentially a lot of the tools we use are only meant to be view layers, and we constantly cobble together supporting layers (models and controllers for example) ad-hoc. Angular handles that off the shelf. I suspect a lot of people are put off by this because it feels imposing and they might not realize they're implementing the same stuff manually, and likely doing it worse.

I used to think it's plain old garbage but realized that's ridiculous. There are reasons people prefer it in some scenarios.

SolidJS is my favourite by a long shot, but I find myself using React because I know so many people I write for and work with are more comfortable with it. I'd be glad to use it more often if it made sense.