@samccone, actually, after doing it, this change seems pretty high touch. Here's the [commit](https://github.com/jasonLaster/backbone.marionette/commit/063912e4e9134abc3db46dcb99e01554a8705e62) with the changeset. 

Curious to see what you think, but I'd lean towards revisiting this change in the context of the `v2` module discussion. Hopefully, we'll come up with a **far** simpler version that will make this problem mute.