The transition from Portal Engine to MVC can be challenging for many who are new to MVC.  Many of the features we were accustomed to having through webparts now require coding to enable or add them in.  Kentico provided the Dancing Goat site in MVC to showcase many of their features, but the down side is there’s too much in it, it’s very hard to “strip” out the Dancing Goat and preserve the Kentico features so you can start a new project.

Sadly the “Blank MVC Site” goes to the other extreme, it’s truly Blank.  There’s nothing in it, no Authentication Own setup, no routes or helpers, no 404s handlers, no bundles, no nothing.  Leaving a first-time developer going through a lot of documentation to get things started.