Agreed. I really liked AngularJS in spite of all its shortcomings. To me, it felt a lot more traditional I guess, and coming from Python/Django, I really enjoyed that. React on that other hand, I can't seem to gel with it at all.
Angular, if I wanted to say AngularJS, I would have written as such.
However, if you see other posts from me, you would also notice that I am largely involved in projects that are quite strong in Java and .NET stacks with SSR.
My team understood the strengths and weaknesses, and we utilised almost all of the features that it provided.
The >2.x releases didn’t provide much value for us, and didn’t solve any problems that we had. So the motivation to migrate and refactor was low.
I still think Angular 1.x is a decent library, and have often contemplated contributing fixes/security to a fork.