Looking for Opinions on ASP MVC

[TBA]

3. Long Time MS Developer Here

Job market - very good. More and more ASP.NET-related job posting mention/require MVC.

I like it with one notable exception- MVC scaffolding.

Basically the scaffolding tool gens views based on models. The models are usually directly related to the underlying data tables.

So scaffolding creates views (User Interfaces) that are drill-down nightmares for users to use.

I am a developer. But I am passionate about UX (user experience). In the vast majority of applications, users do not view their data in the same way a normalized data source is organized.

So I say use MVC but skip the scaffolding. Design the view to represent the user's understanding of the data - this will likely require the use of view models, a fourth layer designed to represent the data in a user-centric way.

My opinion....