Remove Blade from sage 9

I’m trying to get the memberpress plugin to play friendly with sage 9. I believe the problem I’m having may have to do with blade, which I would love to use. However, I’d like to try removing blade to see if I can get memberpress to work. I’ve read a few posts about how to remove blade, but it’s not clear. I’ve tried a few things. Can someone point me to a good explanation of how I can do this? Will I be able to keep the nice folder structure of 9? My other option I’m considering is just using Sage 8, which works, but I wouldn’t get the new and improved Sage 9 front-end workflow. Tips? Advice?

These are my 3 options:

  1. figure out how to make memberpress work with blade (almost given up on this)
  2. remove blade but still use Sage 9
  3. use Sage 8 and try not to obsess about not using the cool, new front-end workflow of Sage 9