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That's fine if your app is a toy you can rewrite in 6 months.

If you have a huge number of products that span millions of lines of code and took over 10 years to write and you're trying to pick a tech stack you can use across them all; this isn't going to fly.

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Moreover, many people who have been choosing AngularJS have been doing so because they believe that by coming from Google it stands a much better chance than numerous competing solutions of surviving and being updated for years to come. That is still probably true, but if it turns out to be true in the sense that you can keep using AngularJS but need to substantially rewrite your project every couple of years to keep up with radical changes, the value proposition is lessened considerably.

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