Right, and this is normal except that people take it too far, I love to find 10(!) depth nested views hiding table valued functions and scalar functions everywh

Right, and this is normal except that people take it too far, I love to find 10(!) depth nested views hiding table valued functions and scalar functions everywhere - you cant reason about the rat's nest created. If you want to make simple views that expose useful nouns I am down with it, but I have seen it taken too far too many times.