I'm a human user and I have a mental model of the json and rss apis I consume via code I write. I notice that he didn't say visual as you did earlier
Source: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/1979/mvc-2/1979-12-MVC.pdf
And you are not a human user, you are an engineer.
I am most certainly a human user.
Maybe there is some significant difference, but you haven't outlined one other than "it's not what person X says MVC means".