Angular.js doesn't really solve the hard parts of writing web applications either. The hard part is structure. Not data binding. I don't need a framework to automatically update an <input> for me, input.value = val isn't costing me sleep at night.

What we need to make web applications easier are equivalents to things like UIPageViewController in iOS or Activities in Android. Real views that do real things. It seems that JS frameworks only give you the very top level base View class that does almost nothing.