I've worked on many very large Angular applications I've always loved working with it. I have worked with plenty of React but I avoid Next.js like the plague after reading through documentation / examples / blog posts.

I was in the trenches pre-ES6 with JavaScript and JS/CSS since the year they came out, so of course I do love KISS-style bare-bones websites when that is the proper tool for the job. But certainly not for anything at scale. Angular, being a framework and not a library, is perfect for those purposes. I prefer that it IS opinionated (no "what router does this project use?"), and I also would not develop anything these days without TypeScript (even small sites).

To each their own.