[textread]

> all your endpoints went through some function

Are you refering to CGI?

> I’d be afraid a young dev would have no idea

/s But then, I want to reinvent the wheel, it will be square and better.

> treating data as data in the abstract

Now you are really sounding like Sussman from SICP :-)

> “controller” is the balance-of-system

In Django, they call this as a View!