One take-away is that Angular 2.0 will be a huge improvement over Angular 1.3. It's definitely something to keep an eye on.

Yeah, Angular is still evolving. Deprecating consuming features should help a bit. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/eec6394a342fb92fba5270eee11c83f1d895e9fb

They're at least trying to move in the right direction. That said, people need to understand that Angular is not the answer to everything.

@sean Have you used it on many projects? I've used it once and it does require a certain amount of discipline. I can understand how it may get confusing passing an Angular project between developers.

I'm using it currently for work and personal projects. If you break everything out into directives, projects are much easier to maintain among multiple developers. And yeah, there's a fairly steep learning curve but, the biggest seller for me is the 2 way data binding. There's a lot of little nuances but, there's a ton of handy ng-directives that can eliminate the need for cumbersome DOM manipulation.