In Monkeybars we decided to group all parts of the MVC tuple under the same directory because we mainly work with them as a set. It's too annoying to have to bounce around from a model dir to a controller dir to a view dir.
MVC|MVC|MVC is more natural grouping than MMM|VVV|CCC.
MVC|MVC|MVC is more natural grouping than MMM|VVV|CCC.