Ha, I worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC 2 & 3! By old-school, I was referring more to the lockin of the MSFT stack than the specificity of a particular library.

(When we moved over to a Python-based solution, we ported from MVC 3/SqlLinq/MS SQL Sever stack)

EDIT: Oh, and were had a lot of good stuff going on using ServiceStack....loved that set of libraries.