Bacon Darwin, AngularJS team member stated “The primary theme for this release was to improve the upgrade path to Angular 2”. Google planned to abandon Angular 1 moving on to Angular 2 however Google underestimated the success of the popular framework suffering backlash from the development community and forcing them to rethink the strategy. Eventually, the dev team ended up dedicating quite a serious amount of time to putting together a way to move Angular 1.x coders to the new Angular 2.x syntax that’s incompatible with the old one. Continue reading this story here. Continue reading this story here.