It's a matter of opinion. I know people who consider MVVM too heavy weight for web-apps.

>I think your last point about statelessness is relevant and made me think a bit more about why MVVM might not be so good.
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>But if we move away from the idea of having the MS MVC pattern on the server and look at using it on the browser end (with, for example, angular) then MVVM looks good (in fact, arguably, the angular way of doing things IS closer to MVVM) ?