IMHO the big advantage of views is that they make it easy to upsize to MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle in future. VFP's Parameterized Views are also SQL-Injection-Proof (SQL Injection is a hacking method to access or damage data).
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
