Why Qt is misusing model/view terminology?

Question

I think that the terminology used in Qt with model/view controls is flawed. On their explanation page they state, that they simplified the MVC to MV by merging View and Cont

Answer 1

I believe their terminology is correct...although in real applications I find it can be very easy to blur the lines between model, view, and controller depending on your level of abstraction: one level's view may be a higher level's model.

I feel the confusion arises from their QAbstractModelItem class. This class isn't a model item, but rather it is an interface to a model. To make their view classes interface with the model, they had to create a generic abstract interface to the model. However, a model can be a single item, a list of items, a table of 2 or more dimensions of items, etc; so their interface has to support all these model variations. Admittedly, this makes the model items fairly complex, and the glue code to make it work with an actual model does seem to stretch the metaphor a bit.