Enlive is awesome, I used it while working in clojure quite a bit. I definitely prefer it, personally, to something like Clojure's hiccup (which vana-templating is very similar to). The tradeoff is that new-comers who are already familiar with front-end design are going to find it tough to transition - it's a fundamental problem: do you optimize for the newcomer, or for the experienced developer?

Enlive has a lot in common with Vekz' suggestion elsewhere in the comments, and I feel like there's some unifying theme underlying all of this, that should make it easy for newcomers, but allow experienced developers to transform the DOM programmatically.

I'm searching for it now, and I'm sure there'll be a lot of false-starts and dead-ends, but the only sure way not to get there is to not try.