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As always, it depends. Are you working on a CRUD system and are you using models to generate your UI/forms (or to generate a service layer for your SPA / Android / iOS apps)?

Then that pattern can be extremely effective - in fact, that is exactly the reason that some of us were pushing the patterns you see today. It was especially effective back before we had strong typing in frontends as it saved a lot of time otherwise wasted on QA or typo's in the frontend.