>I don't see added complexity as no cost, Where is the added complexity? >and I don't need to add a templating engine when Razor works very well. I mean, obj

>I don't see added complexity as no cost, Where is the added complexity? >and I don't need to add a templating engine when Razor works very well. I mean, objectively it doesn't work very well. > In particular, I really wouldn't want web clients communicating directly with our (multiple) ERP systems I don't see where I stated they needed to directly communicate with the ERP systems directly. There's still complex state that's being communicated to the client. If you're handling the visual aspect of this purely on the server, that pretty needless and costly. Costly to render, costly to maintain.