Angular 2 is late to the party. The user base of Angular 1.x has already moved on.
I wish the success of a web framework was a bit more about the technology nature of it rather than the market adoption and hype.
I wish the success of a web framework was a bit more about the technology nature of it rather than the market adoption and hype.
Here's a chart where you can see daily download counts for react, angular, and angular2.
http://npmcharts.com/compare/angular,react,angular2
React does indeed have about 4x as many daily downloads, but (Angular 1 + 2)'s download counts are ~5x what they were a year ago. (iirc the ng-europe RIP Angular fiasco happened in October 2014)