You're actually picking up the smaller of my two complaints. If everything else about Angular were sensible, I'd probably grumble about dumb overuse of trendy visual primitives, but that's about it. And I absolutely agree that, used sensibly, animations and whatnot are very useful. This complaint basically boils down to wishing all web designers were actually as good as a lot of them think they are.
You missed my complaints about the uselessness of Angular apps without a JS interpreter. That's important, because it means they're basically worthless for consumption by nonhumans. (Sure, I can run Chrome headless, but that's an entirely different can of worms that play poorly with pipelines, not to mention an enormous, absurd runtime for what should be a trivial file transfer.)
Web automation on a personal scale is enormously useful. Angular breaks the underlying assumptions that make it work for sites that don't go out of their way to accommodate it. I get that may be an unintended benefit to some people who want to be control-freaky about how their offerings are used , but it enormously reduces the value of the web.
A connection just hit me - it is similar-ish to way back when, when some misguided designers wanted to publish PDFs on the web instead of HTML. They wanted full layout control, at the cost of basically everything else. Angular is similar, in that doing anything the creator didn't anticipate is very difficult, despite complying with the letter of web standards.
And also, as I said, I default to browsing with JS off. When I hit a blank page, I curse "Angular" and go back to the search engine. So that's annoying, but I've yet to encounter an Angular site I can't live without.