Well, there's a good reason why $scope and controllers will disappear with Angular 2.0. $scope is convenient, but also a massive source of problems. There's workarounds for those problems, but those workarounds wouldn't even be necessary if this aspect of Angular had been designed better.

Angular has some great stuff, and some really necessary ideas and principles that were sorely needed in Javascript. I love working with it, most of the time. But it also has some serious design errors.