Hmmm ... I do MVC web apps all the time and find it actually less complex and easy to implement. Now sure, you can get all academic-y and say it's not really MVC but MVP or MVC model 2 or ... but basically I have a controller (CGI::Application), with home-grown models (Moose and/or traditional blessed hashes), and views (HTML::Template). Even with more-n-more AJAX, I find the MVC model flexible enough to meet my needs (for AJAX, the view shifts from HTML to JSON). What kinds of difficulties are you having?