Is it just me or is Backbone just not that hard? I don't quite understand their data binding situation. You should not need to look at the DOM for elements with

Is it just me or is Backbone just not that hard? I don't quite understand their data binding situation. You should not need to look at the DOM for elements with specific IDs, unless you have truly singular views at the top level. I get the feeling that their form re-rendering headaches had to do with parent views that were listening to unnecessary events, like a collection view that listens to individual model events.