I'm going to cry foul. Lines like "has a umd now. whatever a umd is.... " Stack Overflow copy pasta developers. If you're an associate level developer; the project should be setup for you. If you are above that, you should understand some of the internals and build tools to the point where you are comfortable wiring them.

Also, this has already been discussed; we get it. RC5/6/7 sucked for everyone (well, except those of us who were eagerly waiting for forms 2.0). Must we do daily "omg rc5 was painful" posts?

The change to ngModule took 15 minutes btw, more if you count all the code you got to remove from other components.