I'll throw a wrench in - I like heavy views. In HTML, in desktop GUIs/mobile Apps, in Databases, maybe games. HTML is founded on the principle that your data

I'll throw a wrench in - I like heavy views. In HTML, in desktop GUIs/mobile Apps, in Databases, maybe games. HTML is founded on the principle that your data is semantic, it knows how to submit and modify itself. You have <form> tags. Every thing you can do in your view, is another thing you don't have to submit to some slow service or wait for a controller to do. GUI frameworks are often like this as well, complex well-written UI components tend to remove a lot of supporting code from Controllers that just was there to half-support the UI having a slightly different formatting. The more you can push into your view, the more you can delete controller code, the more model code becomes a glorified "save" button. If your data is well-formed, and/or semantic, this model code can be very simple. Games can be a lot like this as well - after you've loaded your geometry, pushing everything off to the GPU means your "game" code can be focused on simple things. Advanced things like physics and collision can be handled by actor-event logic. Controllers are still there to do some puppeteer-ing and models exist so save and networking code works. Even databases can be view-heavy. A lot of database work amounts to building views of the same set of tables. Some analysis is done on the views, maybe, but keeping everything in normalized tables means losing out on view caching. Possibly this is more how vector databases work, as part of the data is where the data is not just what type the data is or which table it happens to be in. Of course, none of this works great for heavy-networking cases (lots of net-code, lots of multiplayer events, lots of cross-database replication), but those are maybe less interesting to me - I prefer decentralized distributed models anyways. I generally value having more functionality at the local compute node, versus some monolithic service that may fail in a couple years time on the other side of the planet. But that's just me.