[skeeter2020]

>> These kind of business logic operations have often been moved into controllers, which couldn’t have been further from the original intention.

Moving them out of the object model without putting them in the controller is actually a good thing IMO. I don't want to test controller plumbing or data persistence, but I do want to focus on the business logic, so simple controllers that route to smart objects with dumb data models helps. I agree the smart parts don't belong in the controller but I don't think it's as bad as you make it sound.

[danabrams]

There’s no reason your model can’t have an abstraction layer that contains the business logic and a concrete layer that has the persistence (indeed, if it’s complex at all it should).