Ok, I don't know the "correct" answer to that question so this is only my opinion...
I found the great thing about struts is that it reduced the complexity of jsps especially when it came to retrieving information from and displaying information on a web page. I find the simplicity of it beautiful (ok, I'm a geek)!
Lets look at a textfield in a jsp.. Using the struts tags you would code the following:
<html:text property="formVariable" size="15"/>
If you wanted to display a value, its a simple case of in your action typing
aForm.setFormVariable("My Value");
And Voila! "My Value" is displayed in the textfield... and if someone enters a value then in you simply need to type (in ur action):
String theEnteredValue = aForm.getFormVariable();
How simple is that!!! Ok, so you do need to do some extra things like add the form and action to the struts-config, specify what is associated with a particular jsp and ensuring all your variables are in your form class - but personally, it just makes my life a whole lot easier which means I get extra time to surf the net at the end of the day
And its especially great when you initialise your form with a Value Object or export a Value object from your form so that you don't have to initialise each variable in the object!
Ok, thats my 2 cents!
K