>the fact that it lives in the web stack right next to the presentation layer, really sucks (I think) I can't see by what logic the interviewee arrived to this

>the fact that it lives in the web stack right next to the presentation layer, really sucks (I think) I can't see by what logic the interviewee arrived to this conclusion. How is the presentation logic out of place in the presentation layer? Modern API/consumer based architecture make way more sense than having MVC structures where business logic, storage logic and presentation logic intertwine.