application view/component in ember-cli 2.13

I have recently started a new project with the most recent ember-cli (v 2.13 as stated in the topic). I am rather set on generating clean semantic html, and as such don't like the extra div.ember-view that the application generates.

Before I could create the app/views/application.js file with following content:

import Ember from 'ember';
export default Ember.Component.extend({
    tagName: ''
});

It simply used the component as application view and got rid of the root tag, however it doesn't seem to work anymore. In fact when debugging the resolver "view:application" doesn't show up at all. Is there a new way of solving this situation? Afaik routable components are not exactly in yet, are they?

Granted, my last ember project was using ember-rails (with ember 2.7), now I'm going for a pure ember-cli project, so a few things might indeed have changed.

How can the same effect be achieved now? Is it just a case of adding a special rule to resolver? Or maybe it can be reached otherwise? I learned that ember docs can be rather lacking when it comes to new obscure features...