Is pure MVC acrhitecture good or Middle end architecture

Question

MVC architecture

I am sure there are 1000 of articles  about MVC

 

These are the drawbacks what I have observed

• It states UI is completed isolated.That being said, we can still have server side data in view
• Web designers have to learn MVC related syntax like html helpers
• If the middle tier that is the controller changes then we need to change the view
• The view is not the final html. Actual htlml file is rendered

Middle tier architecture

Def : view is pure html. We get data via web Api. Data is rendered as JSON.

 

Advantages

•   View is not dependent on any technology.takes data from web Api and displays it
•  Web designers as not forced to learn any new technology
•  Html what we see is the actual html what is rendered.

I know there are lot of advantages of MVC.Can you please help me justify.