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I hear what you're saying with regard to clients, but I think you totally missed 37s' point. They're NOT saying "don't mockup at all". Rather, they are encouraging an interactive process with real and usable output that adapts more easily to collaboration and change. There is nothing you can do with Photoshop that you can't do with paper prototypes and follow-on HTML mockups.

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I'd take that even further and say that instead of nothing, there's too much you can do with Photoshop that you can't with paper prototypes and HTML mockups.

The ability to do drop shadows on text and use all sorts of fonts and apply a motion blur and lens flare and opacity and all that doesn't translate well to the Web.

It's very frustrating as a Web developer to have someone send an over-Photoshopped mockup that won't work well as a functioning website.

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