The philosophy behind Angular is to err on the side of configuration over convention. Convention-based frameworks, although may seem elegant from the outside, make it really difficult for newcomers to pick up the framework. Configuration-based frameworks, however, aim to expose their inner workings through explicit configuration elements and hooks, where you can attach your custom behavior to the framework. In essence, Angular tries to be non-magical, where AngularJS was a lot of magic.
This results in a lot of verbose coding. This is a good thing. Terse code is the enemy of maintainability, only benefiting the original author. However, as Andy Hunt and David Thomas put it in the Pragmatic Programmer,
Remember that you ...
