Componets/Widgets were super old in Desktop world so React did not invented them. This is why I wonder if angular devs ever ever did any GUI development before creating angular, or maybe angular was just a simple toy and for some reason it grew too much.

I can't find 1 good thing to say about angular1(version <=1.5) compared to Qt,WPF,Flex4 . Let me know if you worked with that old version any good thing about it (that is not it is a bit better then bad jQuery code)