This is actually where I think Ember does better than the Angular sample provided. Ember controllers hold the "data" in a "content" field on the controller (pro

This is actually where I think Ember does better than the Angular sample provided. Ember controllers hold the "data" in a "content" field on the controller (proxied). Any model can be placed there. If you do add a "people" field to the controller (as in the sample) I'd argue that does what you're describing here as "bad" because it's specifying information in the view about the model.