It really depends what you need. I just launched a pretty trivial Angular app, which required ngRoute and a local storage interface. Total size of the three: 112.7k. All the standard-issue angular modules put together amount to 129k.
For non-trivial stuff, I'm sure people need a bunch more extras, third party libraries and so on. But it's a pretty major bonus for Angular that you can use it productively either for a full SPA, or for the kind of trivialities that one typically duct-tapes together with jquery. The small-ish size (I know, not THAT small) is part of that, but so is the flexible and modular design.
Not that I dislike Ember - it's very nice. And I am in the fortunate position at the moment where page-load size is not a huge concern (or rather, a battle that has already been lost before I clock in).
For non-trivial stuff, I'm sure people need a bunch more extras, third party libraries and so on. But it's a pretty major bonus for Angular that you can use it productively either for a full SPA, or for the kind of trivialities that one typically duct-tapes together with jquery. The small-ish size (I know, not THAT small) is part of that, but so is the flexible and modular design.
Not that I dislike Ember - it's very nice. And I am in the fortunate position at the moment where page-load size is not a huge concern (or rather, a battle that has already been lost before I clock in).