They are probably just angry at themselves for jumping into React too early. Good I had wits not to do it. Angular is simply awesome, especially with CLI. I am doing a big project and I never touched nasty webpack files. All that I wanted additionally was available via npm install. Typescript is awesome. Tons of frameworks, PrimeNG being the greatest .
And I think Angular is winning anyway by a large margin: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Angular%...