I'm hardly a fanboy, I'm just lucky that MS' web stack became usable at the time I changed to a job where I needed to start using it. I don't think I could have transitioned from where I was to ASP.NET or the older stacks. I actually miss Apache/mod_perl which I found much simpler and more powerful, and I regret that I didn't get the chance to use Mojolicious professionally. But MVC3/4 haven't been so bad. I like the naming-convention-based approach because Rails and other frameworks use it, and I like having the ability to override it as-needed with attributes or route definitions. I like the dynamic type, given that I'm a die-hard Perl programmer, but I honestly haven't needed to use it in MVC so I'm not sure what you're referring too... maybe just the ViewBag object? I always used typed models for my views, and when I pass info through ViewBag I pull typed objects out of it at the top of my view so I have strongly typed variables in the rest of the view.

I don't think Microsoft tech has ever favored clarity...it's usually too java-esqe ivory-tower architeched enterprisey for my tastes. MVC is like that too, but the worst bits seem to be the ones inherited from ASP.NET. The new stuff is somewhat better, and you can now at least go look at the code to figure out how it works.