So if the benefits can't be measured, you're suggesting that the front-end should be rewritten as a matter of pure faith in model binding?

(Honestly, that's my impression of how most people decide to adopt a JavaScript framework. "Yeah, we don't really understand the whole, and there are all these edge cases where you have to work against the framework, but overall it's immeasurably better because of philosophy and purity.")

I can't wait to have just one designer unencumbered, available and talented.

Good luck with that at a large corporation, I guess... :)