(It seems reasonable to assume users are often expected to occasionally adapt answers rather than expect to use them verbatim.)

while ActiveForm currently fits 99% of my use cases, I do sometimes make modifications based on the product requirements

As with other software patterns, MVC expresses the "core of the solution" to a problem while allowing it to be adapted for each system.

More to the point, in situations of breakdown, whether epic or mundane, the humble mobile phone has extended the city's interactivity and adaptability in all kinds of ways and may well have been the most significant device to add to a city's overall resilience by adding an extra thread to the urban knot