[cwbrandsma]

The real issue is the amount of "Black Box" in WebForms. A lot of the guidance is "Do it this way". Why? "Because". You really can't know what is going on behind the scenes. ViewState and the PostBack model are both parts of that. I used them for years...never knew how they worked or what was going on to make them work.

This in turn forced people to go to the MVP pattern to manage those systems, but I still find plenty of clients with code behind that is THOUSANDS of lines long. Everything in one file.

Also, many of the controls were very hard to style, with some very strange html in there.