It does put your view and viewmodel into the same file though, which makes it very easy to form a tight coupling there. But.. from what I've read their argumen

It does put your view and viewmodel into the same file though, which makes it very easy to form a tight coupling there. But.. from what I've read their argument is that the view and viewmodel are coupled by nature, and that it makes sense to do it this way. Do you have a different viewpoint? Sounds like you do.