I've played around with most of the JavaScript MV(whatever)'s and I'm just not sure about this.

"Flight is organized around the existing DOM model with functionality mapped directly to DOM nodes"

It seems the point of using backbone or which ever other framework (I'm partial to Angular so far), is to decouple from the DOM, so that if and when your markup changes, your JavaScript doesn't. This doesn't seem any better than well written jQuery.

Am I missing something?