Removing the need for a ViewCell in a ListView ItemTemplate

Hi,

Question
I am wondering when or if it will be possible to use a "View" instead of a "ViewCell" inside a ListView?
As far as I can find, in 3.0 there is still a need for a ViewCell.
(Jason Smith pointed out this would be a 3.0 feature during the Xamarin Forms Build 2017 talk.)

Background info
We are currently extensively using custom ViewCells inside ListViews and TableViews.
However, what we want is a way to use our custom ViewCells in other places as well.
One option would be to build our own TableView based on a StackLayout (very easy) and use a Grid instead of a ViewCell.

Thanks in advance,
Misja