Oh, sorry -- I want to get rid of getRequiredHandlePHIDs() with ModularTransactions, since HandlePool should be able to do it for us now. Can we try something like this instead?

final protected function renderHandle($phid) {
  $viewer = $this->getViewer();
  $display = $viewer->renderHandle($phid);

  if ($storage->getRenderingTarget() == PhabricatorApplicationTransaction::TARGET_TEXT) {
    $display->setAsText(true);
  }

  return $display;
}

Then implement setAsText() on PHUIHandleView, and have it just return $handle->getLinkName() from render() if set?

Then we shouldn't need to do all the getRequiredHandlePHIDs() stuff, but should still get efficient bulk-loading of handles via HandlePool, I think. I may also need to adjust how pht() works a little bit.