Feature request from dmanners, posted on GitHub Aug 19, 2014
What is with the base folder under some of the view folders for modules? As far as I can see, according to the documents at https://wiki.magento.com/display/MAGE2DOC/Magento+2+Product+Documentation the folders under view are normally the areas: adminhtml, frontend etc.
I would suggest if these folder can be areas and other items like themse etc that this could cause some confusion.
An example of this is Mage\Bundle\view\base
here there are layout and template files