It looks that way in the long run, although there will be a period where tutorials for Angular 1 will be superior to those for Angular 2.

I found this video that compares doing some common operations in Angular 1, Angular 2 and Aurelia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLuuAlDXHU0

It's fairly recent too: August 3 2015.

Angular 2 looks way easier to understand. That is from the perspective of someone just starting out. Although note alot of things changes in Angular 2. So some tutorials may be out of date.

There are more resources about Angular 1.x obviously.

What might be confusing is the whole AtScript/Typescript/Javascript thing.

I never found Angular 1.x difficult, but it's a bit like Rails, people might have the impression that they can learn the framework without learning the language at first place. Ultimately 1.x was limited by ES5 itself. That's what it was a bit confusing sometimes, especially with all the scopes and contexts stuff.

In theory it will be. In practice, not yet because the documentation has a lot of gaps and error messages aren't that good yet. Still, I'm liking it. (I'm trying out the Dart version.)