[skillet-thief]

(Author here)

"... it’s just that the layering of the three is no longer pre-ordained by the framework."

That is pretty close to what I think. And I don't have any great certainty about any of this. I'm not going to go around saying "MVC is dead!"

What I observe with Om is that Om works well because it determines a flow of data, and the tools that we have to influence that flow of data, which could be identified with M, V or C, don't need to have any kind of formal separation, as opposed to a framework where you would have Model objects, Controller objects and View objects. It seems to me that Om and React have shifted the metaphor a little bit, and that the MVC metaphor isn't the best one to describe what is going on.