I think that a big problem here is the fact that in OOP, everything is an object, i.e.: a class. And if all you have is a hammer, then .... But it is much better to picture the model, controller and the view as emergent. But implementing this in OOP is too challenging because some things in either of those three domains are going to be a process, or a piece of state or a role, etc.

And in implementing some process, what is it? As in: what is its encoding in $language and where does it go?

So you end up with the local stamp collectors in the office and get into an argument of: it is part of the model, so should be in the Model class. "Process, nah, that is totally a controller aspect. It does something." etc.