My goal with replacing Angular 2 was to remove a lot of the complexity. Getting Angular 2 up and running requires a lot of moving parts. By removing Angular 2 I was able to eliminate a lot of pieces of the build. These pieces were making my builds on Azure App Services brittle so it had to go.
http://wildermuth.com/2017/02/12/Why-I-Moved-to-Vue-js-from-Angular-2