What wrong is it in creating a simple form tag in html to hold a small form whose validation can be written easily instead of creating a form model to hold the rules and labels?
Consider this before abandoning the form model. The form model does a lot of things for you. Some of these things will take a lot of effort to build for yourself. Here is a quick list:
There are a lot of things you are giving up. Even for a simple form. And those things go beyond validation and HTML formatting.
You can choose a simplest way, it will not be wrong.
FormModels should help you to organize a lot of validation rules, scenarios and other. If creation of FormModel will take more effort than just write validation in controller, this isn't case for FormModel.