> I think the only OOP is the instantiation of the controllers ... which are instantiated per request => pointless ;). which has nothing to do with oop. that i

> I think the only OOP is the instantiation of the controllers ... which are instantiated per request => pointless ;). which has nothing to do with oop. that is IoC and they are (by default) scoped per request (but do not need to be scoped per request, singleton controllers are fine. (AddControllersAsServices)) btw. controllers by default do not get "built" by IoC but the helper "ActivatorUtilities#CreateInstance<T>(IServiceProvider, Object[])" uses it to resolve dependencies of the controller. if you add "AddControllersAsServices" it will use the IoC directly and skip using "ActivatorUtilities#CreateInstance" (and the IServiceProvider of the controller as created with the IServiceScopeFactory) and you can basically overwrite the behavior however you want, by using `IControllerFactory`.