Strongly agree. I was not suuper hard to configure with Angular 15, but it was a bit of a hassle (+ I had to check all bundles manually to make sure it works as intended), even with lot's of experience in Angular. I believe for developers new to Angular the decision to remove environments and it's configuration creates an unnecessary wall that's just a bit scary (how does it all work? How can I even verify it?). I understand the decision, but I think most people are more confident in removing some configuration they don't need, instead of adding some unknown configuration that the only half understand
There is currently open source library being developed called analog js for angular that is going to have similar features like next for react or nuxt for vue