The only reason why I would choose the WebForms instead of MVC is because you have much more 3rd party UI controls for WebForms than MVC. I choose MVC because I worked too much with WebForms and I want to work with something fresh / new, but still from MS shop :)

Basically, nothing prevents you to turn off the viewstate in WebForms and use ViewModels and if/for loops instead of model binding and server side controls.

Is this WebForms or MVC code:

<% foreach (var item in Model.Items) { %>
<p><%: item.Name %></p>
<% } %>

The only limitation I found in WebForms is that if you use Dependency Injection / Inversion of Control, you can't have constructor injection since WebForms pages must have parameterless constructor, so you have to use property injection. Is this really such a big deal?