I used Ember for about 2 years and thought so too.
Now I'm using React and I think it's approach is much better.
The API is tiny compared to Ember and there aren't much concepts, still it accomplishes everything Ember did.
I feel bad to say this, but in the modular, library heavy, NPM based JS world of today, React (and other component frameworks like Cyclejs or hyperapp) fits just in. While Ember feels like a anachronism of the big framework days of Rails. :/
Now I'm using React and I think it's approach is much better.
The API is tiny compared to Ember and there aren't much concepts, still it accomplishes everything Ember did.
I feel bad to say this, but in the modular, library heavy, NPM based JS world of today, React (and other component frameworks like Cyclejs or hyperapp) fits just in. While Ember feels like a anachronism of the big framework days of Rails. :/