I must admit, modern angular has been a pleasure to use. It's a shame that the ecosystem is a little rough. Luckily you get so much out of the box already.
What is rough in the ecosystem? I haven't had any issues finding packages. Most packages have been keeping up with the signal trends as well.
Are projects still chosing to pick RxJS (or equivalent) which make the code heavily layered and a pain to debug?
Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?
Same experience here.
I wish Angular dropped their weird compiler that's tight coupled to tsc and moved into more pluggable approach so you can use it with whatever TS compiler. App and unit test cold build times are still crap, but at least with a coding agent you care about this less.