How often do we list static data in lists anymore? Honest question. It feels like most websites you view anymore are displaying data fed from somewhere that isn't known when you write the markup. As you write markup some is meant to repeat data (lists of posts, reports, etc.). Since this seems to be (to me) happening more than not, markup needs at least some kind of update to accommodate the fact that when writing it, we don't typically write out static markup anymore, though the end result obviously is.
Therefore, Angular, to me, acts like that "dynamic markup" when writing it. It feel more natural to me at this point.
