ClientTemplateId is fine when you are using kendo templates, but in our case we use handlebars templates, and in order to tell a listview that we need to do something horrible like 

<script type="text/x-kendo/tmpl" id="TPStrengthTemplate"> 
	#= Handlebars.templates.TPStrength(data) #
</script>

asside from interop, the script tag is untenable in large applications, as it may force us to create TONS of superfious script tags (some with the same id in the case of repeating partial views). Especially when template precompiling is a 'best practice' for client templating (hence our use of handlebars)

instead there should just be an option to specify a client handler pointing to Handlebars.templates.TPStrength