This is irrelevant to the changes from the PR. Manual DOM updates are not managed by HTMLBars anyway, regardless of the rendering algorithm. That said, I think

This is irrelevant to the changes from the PR. Manual DOM updates are not managed by HTMLBars anyway, regardless of the rendering algorithm. That said, I think that binding classes (like `class={{foo}}`) and updating it through HTMLBars is a safer way to do it, comparing to direct DOM manipulation.