I'm not disqualifying your post, actually. Directives are pretty horrific to write (I prefer KnockoutJS's bindingHandlers because they are so simple), but I am disagreeing that frameworks are necessary in a large codebase with lots of developers working on them. And that people's codebases are worse off for using Angular than a free-for-all nothing at all. (This comment particularly was directed at the fact that Angular actually has a lot of challenging concepts for your average web developer.)
I agree with both of your points. I was also attempting to point out that large companies with sub par programmers also use specific frameworks as a crutch in order to put boxes around how much of a code base a particularly inept programmer can screw up simultaneously. Angular lends itself to that in the js space.
But I don't think that disqualifies my post at all.