ng-cloak stuck in hidden state

ok, so in a really old angular-js app I am working on, there is a div looking like this

<div ng-cloak>

The context seems fine and it should work. However when running the app i dev mode (with vite) the content of the div never turns visible.

What makes it strange is that angular seems to do everything right. Checking the inspector, the ng-cloak attribute has been removed. Checking the computed style of the element says display: block and it simply should be visible.

To make matters worse, if I add the style display: block in the inspector it shows up, and it stays visible even if I remove the style. Additionally if I change the size of the window until it hits some breakpoint (not sure which one) it becomes visible, and no change in window size can make it disappear again.

I know angular-js is old and no longer maintained, but I still want to solve this issue

edit: Messing around with the angular code, it continues to behave in unexpected ways.

I changed the file node_modules/angular/index.js to this

require('./angular');
module.exports = angular;
console.log("index.js")

so, just adding a console.log at the end, and everything starts working without any hickups.

Feels like it is either a timing issue, or a vite issue