I disagree, though my use has changed. I recently worked on an app that only had a couple of views; almost everything else was handled by exposing APIs via Pist

I disagree, though my use has changed. I recently worked on an app that only had a couple of views; almost everything else was handled by exposing APIs via Piston (which were consumed via jquery). Still, the value of the other features of the framework made it work using in the project.