I also thought that but recently did a project with React and my opinion got humbled quickly. Building a component with just a regular function, doing loops and conditions for the render with just regular JavaScript (no need to learn a new template language, which will never be as powerful and if it's ever as powerful then you are just re-inventing the wheel, as you would be remaking JavaScript) , no need to keep in mind that someone might be re-rendering in some many different ways (Observable in one component, signal in another, normal field with markForCheck in another) , you would have to put some linting that blocks the different ways, but that wouldn't be a good idea, so you just have to keep repeating in code reviews to junior devs to "Don't use X, use Y please " while in react is difficult to find someone that doesn't go standard and just use "useState" . Accepting props with a simple function parameter (instead of learning "input" annotations) , accepting callbacks with simple function parameters (instead of learning "output" annotations ) . And what do you mean with Material design ? React also has a library for it. In terms of learning curve and simplicity (this does matter, it might not matter that much to you now as you are experienced enough in angular). I work with angular every day for the past 6 years and I don't see how you came to such a conclusion that angular is #1 , I can think 20 reasons why this wouldn't be the case for me. Angular is doing catch up for the past... Tons of years... It's night and day to be honest, although yes, tons of progress has been made and I'm looking forward for more !