Interesting. I'd tend to think that it's because Backbone is agnostic about your backend, and agnostic about your UI. That tends to leave a lot of the big piec

Interesting. I'd tend to think that it's because Backbone is agnostic about your backend, and agnostic about your UI. That tends to leave a lot of the big pieces up to you... That said, I like your premise. If you have more concrete thoughts about what "re-positioned and turned into a full-blown client-side framework, with more control flow inversion' ... would mean in practice, please open a ticket and describe your ideas for discussion.