It seems like essential complexity to me. I think maybe there's some ceremony around explicitly casting, validating, etc. with Ecto, but it would be hard to hi

It seems like essential complexity to me. I think maybe there's some ceremony around explicitly casting, validating, etc. with Ecto, but it would be hard to hide that without 'magical' assumptions and making it more inflexible. But I agree View files always felt a little redundant for many use cases where the template doesn't really need to make any function calls – and from memory, function calls in LiveView templates is not performant and causes the whole DOM to be regenerated when values change.