You have a good point here, and we will share a lot more details around the template code on our blog soon. I hadn't heard specifically of BPEL but will check that out.

We went with the MVC pattern to leverage ours and others' experience in that architecture, but there is almost no typical MVC boilerplate to deal with in Forward.

You just create a new template file, like "mypage.html", and go, just like you would with raw HTML mockups. If you prefer to write controllers you can. If you want to write custom data models (for something like this {put [something] in "/my-custom-model"}), you can, but you don't have to.

This is meant to make it easy for less technical designers to move fast without having to learn MVC patterns.