It's an over-engineered piece of crap for java and .net people who pretend to be "full-stack developers" but have no idea how javascript works or what frontend development is.
hahaha, fully agreed with you. but i wanted a website that behaved like a SPA with mvc asp.net. so i changed all anchor and form tags in ajax calls and now have a frankenstein SPA, may be a nice name as ajax mvc asp.net is better :-)