Kevin, I'll try one last time to convert this from a "he said/she said" bicker into a technical debate.

You say you regard SPs as a good starting point. By "starting point" do you mean you use them by default, unless there are reasons not to?

If you do use SPs by default, you must consider they have significant advantages over other options. What are the advantages? Please- not because your friends all do the same... what's the underlying technical justification/s? If there's an existing link that summarizes your position, of course it's proper to post it.

Second: if issues do arise that cause you not to use SPs, what are they?

FWIW, the "VB-style" suggestion arose after astonishment (shared by me) that people were implementing C/S apps with no change management, using mass updates every time. Apparently they did the same in VFP. If that's regarded as optimum, it's true that VFP (and its inbuilt features like Remote Views) offers little benefit. But not everybody would agree that it's optimum.

One more suggestion: does this really belong in the VFP chatter area in this particular thread?