I totally agree. At my first job, they instantly jumped towards Symfony and AngularJS. Sounds good, but they could've totally gone for something more lightweight. They DID NOT NEED the complexity AngularJS (and Angular2) brought them. When I left I tried my best to update to at least an LTS version, but I did not succeed and they did not care. I believe they're now migrated to Angular2 but are already stuck in hell