Initially adding the Core Value Converters package into Core! Currently this will break all the existing things but it makes views insanely simple with ModelsBuilder!!

src/Umbraco.Core/EnumerableExtensions.cs

@@ -301,5 +301,21 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core
                && list1Groups.All(g => g.Count() == list2Groups[g.Key].Count());
         }
 
+        ///<summary>
+        /// Returns the items of the given enumerable as a pure enumerable.
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// When quering lists using methods such as <see cref="M:List.Where"/>, the result, despite appearing to look like and quack like an 
+        /// <see cref="T:Enumerable{T}"/> the type is actually an instance of <see cref="T:System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereEnumerableIterator"/>
+        /// </remarks>
+        /// </summary>
+        ///<param name="source">The item to find.</param>
+        ///<returns>The index of the first matching item, or -1 if the item was not found.</returns>
+        internal static IEnumerable<T> Yield<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
+        {
+            foreach (var element in source)
+            {
+                yield return element;
+            }
+        }
     }
 }