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> Google makes Angular you see, hence my confusion.

The thing is, Google is not a single entity, like any other big corp. So there will be teams doing things differently, even in conflicting ways. Google is not using Angular for most of its sites, I think Closure is more popular there.

You can do static page SEO with JS using libraries that allow isomorphic processing, see rendr, react etc.

There might be something as ridiculous as 'static page SEO' but there is nothing ridiculous about 'static pages'.

Google makes many things with different purposes, and it doesn't usually hold back on creating them to wait till every possible integration that might be useful with other Google efforts is done. If it did, it would never ship anything.

If a "static page SEO" service emits something remotely useful to Googlebot, that's an indication you should have used progressive enhancement from the start.