ContraDishSoapGuys leave yttrium alone, all he tried to do was help us out by giving us a way to have a bit more of an advantage. He isn't doing something particularly awful, so why treat him as he just majorly fucked up. It's not his fault that your stuck with large viewmodels on your screen, it was Valve's decision.
Valve wants the game to be as close to fair as possible so you have to expect this to happen, but yttrium nor Valve deserve to be attacked like this.
It was an exploit and it got patched, its time to get over it.
(Besides Valve is listening to us a bit, they did give us viewmodel_fov 70 in MM, so it's slightly better. It's a start and we need to appreciate the effort, it's probably our best chance to getting valve to letting us having more freedom in our viewmodels for awhile).
Honestly, try minmode if you haven't. It's way better for visibility than any old viewmodel fov solution was, and it literally never gets in the way of shots you're trying to make. It's the perfect middle-ground between gameplay and immersion, and if we HAVE to have viewmodels on, it works well.
I have tried minmode and have personally liked them quite a bit, I just never mentioned them in my post.
However there are a few noticeable flaws that may turn off some people from minmode viewmodels (mostly being the fact that they don't look completely centered when you attempt to line it up to your crosshair, I personally don't use them because I get weird placebo affects and have gotten use to the look of normal viewmodels, so it's a bit difficult for me to transfer to them completely).
EDIT: About the minmode crosshair thing, I've come up a bit puzzled, for a lot of the viewmodels it does infact look centered, but for some it just looks like the gun should be shooting to the right side of your crosshair.
I made these photos real fast and with sloppy lines, if you believe I'm off tell me and I'll edit this out. For now however let's look at the examples I have for the minmode viewmodels being off center.
Pyro's Flaregun:
http://i.imgur.com/CNn4xw6.png?1
Sniper's Sniper Rifle:
http://i.imgur.com/kMSdW0d.png?1
Engineer's Pistol:
http://i.imgur.com/EleC0Rd.png?1
PS: Ignore the fact that I'm playing on 640x480 and I for some reason didn't crop out the window and just leave the game to be captured.
Once again, I don't know if this is just a placebo feeling for me or if they are actually off-centered.