MVC has some nice properties but the thing that always bothered me about it is that it introduces a mental hurdle that shouldn't really be there. "We use MVC, t

MVC has some nice properties but the thing that always bothered me about it is that it introduces a mental hurdle that shouldn't really be there. "We use MVC, therefore the kinds of objects I can write are models, views, and controllers" seems to be the default, if unarticulated, position of the inexperienced developer. Realizing that no, you can actually write other classes and functions outside of your controller is now a epiphany that one must have to grow as a designer of code. Would these people be writing a jumbled single class containing even more without MVC? I guess, maybe, but a 2000 line controller calling a 2000 line model is only a slight improvement. Anyway, I've had to deal with enough fucked MVC code in my day to question whether or not even giving the methodology a name is a good idea.