[mattmanser]

Simply because not only does it not have to be like that, for years we weren't forced to use this stuff if we didn't want to.

I like C#, no, I adore C#. I have a bad memory for even the simplest method calls and the sheer power the intellisense in a statically typed language gives me to just not care means I can just code with joy.

My personal view on it has always been that someone in MS wrote MVC 1 in response to Rails on the sly. It was fantastic, a breath of fresh air into the MS constant misunderstanding of the web. Especially compared to webforms. For a while, everything was good. Then somehow 7 or 8 years ago the ASP.Net team got obsessed with ramming "best practices" down our throat and everything's gone a bit downhill from there.

[taco_emoji]

You still are not forced to use it. The documentation will heavily emphasize it, but you can still manually new things up to your heart's content if you want.