I know what you're thinking. The job boards say React. The bootcamps say React. Every "top frameworks 2025" listicle says React. I'm not here to tell you React is bad — it isn't. But after 15 years across five industries, teams ranging from 3 to 20 engineers, and frontend codebases that had to survive long past their original authors, I keep reaching for Angular when the stakes are high. Here's the honest case for why. Let me establish some credibility first I'm not an Angular developer who hasn't touched React. I've shipped React in production — TypeScript, hooks, the whole ecosystem — on real teams with real users. I know the flexibility. I've felt the speed of spinning something up. I've also led Angular teams building platforms and component libraries that are still in production today, maintained by engineers who had nothing to do with writing them. That last sentence is the whole argument, really. React's ecosystem is a feature. On large teams, it's also a trap.…