That may be true if your site is an article repository (blog, news etc) where the primary purpose is consuming text. If I'm on your site to read, then I certainly don't want to be "interacting" with the page.

But the browser is the new OS, complex applications are written for the web as a platform/runtime and this is not a bad thing. This is where Angular can help. It's not built to help you show/hide a few dom elements, it there to give you a powerful structure for developing web applications.