[tomxor]

It _can_ become unmaintainable but it entirely depends on how you define your view state, you can still create large applications with jquery if you refrain from creating overly complex state UI (speaking from experience). One thing I find overly shunned in favour of heavy MVC is CSS, CSS is a bloody state machine, it's perfect to manage your UI, you need one DOM call to update one piece of state... define the reset in CSS and your MVC UI component suddenly seem over engineered.