Absolutely the case - I enjoy Javascript coding but can't stand having to follow Angular's opinions on everything that should be done to the DOM. Having a consistent model of interaction is great, and Angular enforces that while giving you quite a few nice tricks, but it does it in a way that feels so far away from JS itself that I'd bet it actually hurts your Javascript composition to know Angular.

You could say the same thing about (e.g.) Ember.js. It comes with all sorts of 'goodies' in its class hierarchies.