This was my experience. We were forced to use it in a project where we controlled the entire stack. It was so much extract work just to serve data from a backend we had full control over. I don't dislike it but I feel like it's far more of a time-and-place technology than most that people just default to using in any old situation. I'm sure some have used it successfully in a similar scenario—we certainly weren't exactly super knowledgable about it when we were told to use it. We tried, though!