Here's why I like angular...
It only took me a couple days of fooling around with it before I built something useful with it. The steep learning curve is only if you want to know the how-and-why behind every feature of the framework (which I still am not even close to). Learning 100% of the framework is simply not necessary for certain apps.
It's easy in my opinion, it's quick, and it gets the job done. If I run into any problems, there about a bazillion stack overflow post addressing my issue already.