I'm not sure what you mean by that last part. We removed the jQuery dependency in View [0] and History [1], and I wrote a small shiim to allow Backbone Views to work with vanilla JS [2]. No schism, just not a huge paradigm shift either (which is a good thing).
[0] https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/pull/3003
[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/pull/3006
[2] https://github.com/akre54/Backbone.NativeView