Ui router vs angular routing

Some of these are probably more subjevtive that objective, but I will try to be as fair to UI Router as I can.

Advantages

• Seperation of Application State and View State
• Full support for transition control between state, not just enter/exit or a global state changed handler
• A Simpler view model that still adds more flexibility through the view service
• Sibling lookup in terms of "next" and "prev".
• Parameter converters, UI Router has support for regex parameters but it seems more limited
• Providing means to simply refresh views rather than reloading templates as well (see sticky and $view-refresh)

Disadvantages

• No un-nanmed views.
• No abstract states. (Angular Routing don't need them)
• No support for route matching through functions.
• Less used.
• Bigger footprint.
• Not compatible with angular 1.0.x