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Given that the lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms are exactly equivalent and based on the same principles, it's more a question of taste. For example, Roger Penrose says he finds the Hamiltonian approach to be more "symmetric". Come on, those poisson brackets are tasty :p

I'm fairly sure this can be done with lagrangians as long as you are comfortable with the jump from lagrangians to lagrangian densities.

tbf, angles are dimensionless so there's no issue there.