I agree with you that it's frustrating at time. Especially when angular does magic stuff that you're just supposed to know. Like fuck with your existing links and stop existing forms from working.
And sometimes, real easy things are so complicated.. For instance, try to make a form post on the current page. (Hint: If you don't have action="", then the form doesn't post. But, by default, no action usually means submit to current page.) (Hint2: Probably more a hack than a real solution, but I've just used an onclient event on the submit button to manually post the form..)
Sure, if you read all the doc and stumble on this page.. but for a newcomer it's damn surprising to see existing code not working. It's like adding jquery and having random links disappearing.
And sometimes, real easy things are so complicated.. For instance, try to make a form post on the current page. (Hint: If you don't have action="", then the form doesn't post. But, by default, no action usually means submit to current page.) (Hint2: Probably more a hack than a real solution, but I've just used an onclient event on the submit button to manually post the form..)