Let me comment more on my short "why not" - here is why yes:
First off: I don't choose a language because its 2014, 1999 or 1985. Or because its hip, cool or just "in". I choose a language for me, because it can help me achieve what I want to do in a reasonable amount of time. If the outcome is great, even the language is shit, its still great outcome. If the outcome is aweful, no matter how great the language is, the outcome is still not good. And I think the outcome is okay in this case and the framework is in my opinion pretty cool (considering I started JS first on IE5.5), so I cannot be blamed for being happy with a framework like this :).
And, based on my opinion, I choose angular, because I have learned it first and to love it last year. Great community and good documentation imho. I think its the wrong move to change the unterlying API with the new verison. If that really happens, then I maybe switch, learn something new, better - maybe. React is awesome, plain Javascript too imho.
